Quotes about Justice

“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—

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

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.

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.

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

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.

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.

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,

who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.

I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me.”

Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.