Bible Verses About Rulers

A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.

Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.

They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.

Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.

They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.

And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they have obtained riches.

And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.

I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:

Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.

O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.

For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for ever of his covenant:

Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the earth:

For his name alone is exalted.