Quotes about Justice
Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.
— Joel 3:7
I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
— Joel 3:8
Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.
— Joel 3:12
Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
— Joel 3:19
For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.
— Joel 3:21
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
— Amos 1:3
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
— Amos 2:8
Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
— Amos 2:13
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
— Amos 3:10
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
— Amos 4:1
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
— Amos 5:7
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
— Amos 5:11