Bible verses about "injustice" | DouayRheims

⁷ Thou shalt fly Iying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

¹ Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person. ² Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth. ³ Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.

⁸ Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God: ⁹ Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things without number: ¹⁰ Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters: ¹¹ Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn. ¹² Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: ¹³ Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked: ¹⁴ They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night. ¹⁵ But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent. ¹⁶ And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.

² How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?

⁸ Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass. ⁹ Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the needy and poor.

⁵ The just Lord is in the midst thereof, he will not do iniquity: in the morning, in the morning he will bring his judgment to light, and it shall not be hid: but the wicked man hath not known shame.

¹⁵ Thou shalt not do that which is unjust, nor judge unjustly. Respect not the person of the poor: nor honour the countenance of the mighty. But judge thy neighbour according to justice.

¹ A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.

^{8 (5:7)} If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

²⁷ The just abhor a wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are in the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from destruction.

⁸ I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

³ Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place. ⁴ For if you will do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house, kings of the race of David sitting upon his throne, and riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants, and their people. ⁵ But if you will not hearken to these words: I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

¹⁵ He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, both are abominable before God.