Bible verses about "voting" | Brenton

^{3 (145:3)} Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety. ^{4 (145:4)} His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish. ^{5 (145:5)} Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God: ^{6 (145:6)} who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever: ^{7 (145:7)} who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones: ^{8 (145:8)} the Lord gives wisdom to the blind: The Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers; ^{9 (145:9)} he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners. ^{10 (145:10)} The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Sion, to all generations.

²¹ And he changes times and seasons: he appoints kings, and removes them, giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to them that have understanding:

¹⁴ And when thou shalt enter into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, and shalt inherit it and dwell in it, and shalt say, I will set a ruler over me, as also the other nations round about me; ¹⁵ thou shalt surely set over thee the ruler whom the Lord God shall choose: of thy brethren thou shalt set over thee a ruler; thou shalt not have power to set over thee a stranger, because he is not thy brother. ¹⁶ For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means turn the people back to Egypt, lest he should multiply to himself horses; for the Lord said, Ye shall not any more turn back by that way. ¹⁷ And he shall not multiply to himself wives, lest his heart turn away; and he shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. ¹⁸ And when he shall be established in his government, then shall he write for himself this repetition of the law into a book by the hands of the priests the Levites; ¹⁹ and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord thy God, and to keep all these commandments, and to observe these ordinances: ²⁰ that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, that he depart not from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel.

² When the righteous are praised, the people will rejoice: but when the ungodly rule, men mourn.

¹⁷ And the father-in-law of Moses said to him, Thou dost not this thing rightly, ¹⁸ thou wilt wear away with intolerable weariness, both those and all this people which is with thee: this thing is hard, thou wilt not be able to endure it thyself alone. ¹⁹ Now then hearken to me, and I will advise thee, and God shall be with thee: be thou to the people in the things pertaining to God, and thou shalt bring their matters to God. ²⁰ And thou shalt testify to them the ordinances of God and his law, and thou shalt shew to them the ways in which they shall walk, and the works which they shall do. ²¹ And do thou look out for thyself out of all the people able men, fearing God, righteous men, hating pride, and thou shalt set over the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.

² A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

¹³ Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will set your leaders over you.