Quotes about Justice
“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
— Jeremiah 22:13
Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
— Jeremiah 22:15
He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 22:16
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
— Jeremiah 23:5
For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
— Jeremiah 25:14
On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.
— Jeremiah 30:8
For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
— Jeremiah 30:11
There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
— Jeremiah 30:13
Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
— Jeremiah 31:30
In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
— Jeremiah 33:15
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
— Jeremiah 34:9
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
— Jeremiah 34:11