Quotes about Justice
“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
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
— Jeremiah 7:31
Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”
— Jeremiah 9:9
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
— Jeremiah 9:15