Quotes About Justice

Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will be cut off.

Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

Hear, O mountains, the LORDís indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.

Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.

This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:

How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?

Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.

Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?

Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ëWoe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?í

Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.