Quotes about Justice
For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.
— Isaiah 66:16
Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.
— Jeremiah 2:9
and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”
— Jeremiah 4:2
“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
— Jeremiah 5:1
Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
— Jeremiah 5:4
I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
— Jeremiah 5:5
Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
— Jeremiah 5:9
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
— Jeremiah 5:28
Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
— Jeremiah 5:29
Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 6:12
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
— Jeremiah 7:5
if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
— Jeremiah 7:6