Bible verses about "injustice" | EJ2000

⁷ Keep thee far from a false matter; and slay thou not the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

¹ ¶ Thou shalt not admit a false rumour; put not thine hand with the wicked to be a false witness. ² Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause hiding behind many to wrest judgment; ³ neither shalt thou honour a poor man in his cause.

⁸ I would certainly seek God, and unto God would I commit my affairs; ⁹ who does great things that no one can understand, and marvels that have no explanation; ¹⁰ who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters abroad; ¹¹ who sets up the humble on high, that those who mourn may be lifted up with saving health. ¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ¹³ He takes the wise in their own prudence, and the counsel of his adversaries is turned to folly. ¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope in the noonday as in the night. ¹⁵ But he saves the poor from the sword, from the mouth of the wicked, and from the hand of the violent. ¹⁶ Who is the hope of the poor, and iniquity closes her mouth.

² How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

⁸ Open thy mouth for those who cannot speak in the judgment of all the sons of death. ⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and destitute.

⁵ The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: each morning he shall bring his judgment to light; he never fails; but the unjust know no shame.

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, neither pleasing the poor, nor favoring the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

¹ ¶ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against those who are not merciful; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

⁸ If thou seest violence unto the poor and the extortion of rights and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for height is looking upon height; and there is one higher than they.

²⁷ ¶ An unjust man is an abomination to the just, and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

⁸ He has declared unto thee, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of thee: only to do right judgment, and to love mercy, and to humble thyself to walk with thy God.

³ Thus hath the LORD said: Execute judgment and righteousness and deliver the oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor and do not deceive, neither steal from the stranger nor from the fatherless nor from the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. ⁴ For if ye effectively obey this word, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house the kings seated by David upon his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, he and his slaves and his people. ⁵ But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, said the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

¹⁵ ¶ He that justifies the wicked and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.