Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity? No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
Do you rulers indeed speak justly?
Psalm 82:2 "How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked?"
Proverbs 18:5 It is not good to be partial to the wicked and so deprive the innocent of justice.
No, in your heart you devise injustice
Matthew 15:18-19 "But the things that come out of a person's mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts--murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander."
and your hands mete out violence on the earth
Psalm 94:20 Can a corrupt throne be allied with you--a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?
Isaiah 10:1-2 Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Luke 6:38 "Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
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