Lamentations 3:36

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hab 1:13 : 13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
  • 2 Sam 11:27 : 27 And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.
  • Isa 59:15 : 15 Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.
  • Jer 22:3 : 3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

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  • Prov 18:5
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    5To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

  • Prov 29:26-27
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    26The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.

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    12Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.

  • Prov 19:3
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  • Ps 36:3-4
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  • Prov 3:30-32
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    30Do not take up a cause at law against a man for nothing, if he has done you no wrong.

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  • Exod 23:2-3
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    2Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

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    21Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

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    6Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

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    16The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

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