Bible Verses About Rulers

Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers,

That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.

The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath rejoiced.

The fir trees also have rejoiced over thee, and the cedars of Libanus, saying: Since thou hast slept, there hath none come up to cut us down.

Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy coming, it stirred up the giants for thee. All the princes of the earth are risen up from their thrones, all the princes of nations.

All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well as we, thou art become like unto us.

Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?

And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north.

I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High.

But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.

They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee, and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms,

That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?

All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own house.

But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.

Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever.

And a throne shall be prepared in mercy, and one shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment and quickly rendering that which is just.

And a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and strength to them that return out of the battle to the gate.

Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule over my people that is in Jerusalem.