Bible Verses About Injustice: General references

"You must neither wrong nor oppress a foreigner living among you, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

"You are not to abuse any widow or orphan.

"You are not to repeat false rumors; do not join hands with the wicked by offering perjured testimony.

Do not follow the crowd when it does what is wrong; and don't allow the popular view to sway you into offering testimony for any cause if the effect will be to pervert justice.

On the other hand, don't favor a person's lawsuit simply because he is poor.

"Do not deny anyone justice in his lawsuit simply because he is poor.

Keep away from fraud, and do not cause the death of the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

"'Don't be dishonest when measuring length, weight or capacity.

Rather, use an honest balance-scale, honest weights, an honest bushel dry-measure and an honest gallon liquid-measure; I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

You are not to distort justice or show favoritism, and you are not to accept a bribe, for a gift blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of even the upright.

Justice, only justice, you must pursue; so that you will live and inherit the land ADONAI your God is giving you.

"You are not to deprive the foreigner or the orphan of the justice which is his due, and you are not to take a widow's clothing as collateral for a loan.

Rather, remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and ADONAI your God redeemed you from there. That is why I am ordering you to do this.

my face is red from crying, and on my eyelids is a death-dark shadow.

Yet my hands are free from violence, and my prayer is pure.

"If I ever rejected my slave or slave-girl's cause, when they brought legal action against me;

then what would I do if God stood up? Were he to intervene, what answer could I give?

Didn't he who made me in the womb make them too? Didn't the same one shape us both before our birth?

It is not for kings, L'mu'el, not for kings to drink wine; it is not for rulers to ask, "Where can I find strong liquor?"

For they may drink, then forget what has been decreed, and pervert the justice due to the poor.

This is what ADONAI says: "Do what is right and just; rescue the wronged from their oppressors; do nothing wrong or violent to the stranger, orphan or widow; don't shed innocent blood in this place.

"'"If you are careful to do this, then future kings occupying David's throne will enter these palace gates riding in chariots and on horses - he, his servants and his people.

But if you will not pay attention to these words, then I swear by myself," says ADONAI, "that this palace will become a ruin."'

When anyone tramples underfoot any of the prisoners of the land;

when anyone deprives a person of justice, in defiance of the Most High;