Bible Verses About Injustice

`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, nor crush him, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

`Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause others to turn aside;

and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

`Ye do not do perversity in judgment, in mete-yard, in weight, or in liquid measure;

righteous balances, righteous weights, a righteous ephah, and a righteous hin ye have; I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Righteousness--righteousness thou dost pursue, so that thou livest, and hast possessed the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;

and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee from thence; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.

My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids is death-shade.

Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

If I despise the cause of my man-servant, And of my handmaid, In their contending with me,

Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

For, if ye certainly do this thing, Then come in by the gates of this house Have kings sitting for David on his throne, Riding on chariot, and on horses, He, and his servants, and his people.

And if ye do not hear these words, By myself I have sworn--an affirmation of Jehovah, That this house is for a desolation.

To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth,

To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,