No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?
Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness th
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you
Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many si
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.
No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive misch
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all th
He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declare