Quotes about Justice
I will execute great vengeance against them with furious reproof. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay My vengeance upon them.’”
— Ezekiel 25:17
I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.
— Ezekiel 31:11
But if the watchman sees the sword coming and fails to blow the horn to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes away a life, then that one will be taken away in his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’
— Ezekiel 33:6
If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
— Ezekiel 33:8
But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—
— Ezekiel 33:14
None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
— Ezekiel 33:16
Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
— Ezekiel 33:17
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
— Ezekiel 33:18
But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.
— Ezekiel 33:19
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”
— Ezekiel 33:20
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
— Ezekiel 34:4
I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
— Ezekiel 34:16