Quotes about Justice
For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
— Amos 5:12
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
— Amos 5:15
But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
— Amos 5:24
“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
— Amos 6:12
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
— Amos 8:4
Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
— Amos 9:3
You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
— Obadiah 1:13
Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
— Micah 3:1
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
— Micah 3:4
As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
— Micah 3:8
Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
— Micah 3:9
who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.
— Micah 3:10