Bible Verses About Rulers

The king that judgeth the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for ever.

By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear.

By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:

Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth:

And lest they drink and forget judgments, and pervert the cause of the children of the poor.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, and for the causes of all the children that pass.

Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the needy and poor.

I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.

And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.

I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

Better is a child that is poor and wise, than a king that is old and foolish, who knoweth not to foresee for hereafter.

Because out of prison and chains sometimes a man cometh forth to a kingdom: and another born king is consumed with poverty.

Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so?

All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince:

A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath.

I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.

Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.

Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them. O my people, they that call thee blessed, the same deceive thee, and destroy the way of thy steps.

The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.