Psalms 58:2

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Do you rulers truly speak justice? Do you judge people with fairness?

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  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Can a corrupt throne be allied with you—one that brings about trouble under the guise of law?
  • Isa 10:1 : 1 Woe to those who enact unjust decrees and to those who write oppressive laws.
  • Isa 26:7 : 7 The path of the righteous is level; You, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.
  • Isa 59:4-6 : 4 No one calls for justice, and no one pleads with integrity. They rely on empty words and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity. 5 They hatch the eggs of vipers and spin spider webs. Whoever eats their eggs dies, and when one is crushed, a viper hatches. 6 Their webs will not become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
  • Jer 22:16-17 : 16 He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and it was well with him. Is this not what it means to know me? declares the LORD. 17 But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and destroy lives to make unjust gain.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 Then I said: "Hear now, leaders of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not your responsibility to know justice? 2 You who hate good and love evil; you tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones. 3 You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, you who despise justice and twist all that is right: 10 You build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for silver. Yet they lean on the LORD, saying, 'Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us.' 12 Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 Now we call the proud blessed, for those who do evil prosper, and those who test God escape.'
  • John 11:47-53 : 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council and said, 'What are we going to do since this man is performing so many signs?' 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation. 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, 'You know nothing at all!' 50 'You do not realize that it is better for you that one man should die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.' 51 He did not say this on his own; but as high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation. 52 And not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day on, they plotted to kill him.
  • Eccl 3:16 : 16 And I saw under the sun, in the place of judgment, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their descendants from among mankind.

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    1For the director, 'Do Not Destroy,' a Miktam of David.

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    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsehood, and your tongue mutters injustice.

    4No one calls for justice, and no one pleads with integrity. They rely on empty words and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    1Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.

    2They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

  • Isa 59:6-7
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    6Their webs will not become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

    7Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; ruin and destruction are in their paths.

  • Prov 6:18
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    18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,

  • Ps 26:10
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    10whose hands are full of wicked schemes, and whose right hand is filled with bribes.

  • Ps 64:6
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    6They encourage each other in evil plans; they talk about hiding snares and say, 'Who will see them?'

  • Ps 58:3
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    3No, in your hearts you devise injustice; your hands mete out violence on the earth.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.

  • Ps 28:3-4
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    3Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak peace to their neighbors but harbor evil in their hearts.

    4Give them according to what they have done, and according to the evil of their deeds; give them according to the work of their hands; repay them their due reward.

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    16For their feet run to evil; they hasten to shed blood.

  • Mic 6:10-12
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    10Are there still treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and dishonest measures that are detestable?

    11Shall I acquit a person with crooked scales and a bag of deceptive weights?

    12Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

  • Job 6:27
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    27You would even cast lots over the fatherless and barter away your friend.

  • Isa 57:4-5
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    4Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open wide your mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of rebellion, offspring of deceit?

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  • Isa 59:13
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    13We have rebelled and denied the LORD; we have turned away from following our God. We speak of oppression and revolt, conceiving lies and uttering them from the heart.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Rescue me, O LORD, from evil people; protect me from men of violence.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15Their feet are swift to shed blood.

  • Amos 5:7
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    7You who turn justice to bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground—

  • Ps 50:19
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    19You let your mouth speak evil, and your tongue devises deceit.

  • Job 36:17
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    17But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.

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    14if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wrongdoing dwell in your tent,

  • Prov 11:18
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    18The wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness receives a sure reward.

  • Eccl 8:11
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    11When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do evil.

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    9The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they openly declare their sin; they do not try to conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

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    14He has prepared His deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts.

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    2For their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

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    13See, I will strike my hands together in anger at the dishonest gain you have made and the bloodshed that has been done in your midst.

  • Isa 58:4
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    4Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.

  • Hos 10:13
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    13But you have planted wickedness, reaped injustice, and eaten the fruit of deception. Because you trusted in your own way and in your many warriors,

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    35They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness; their womb prepares deceit.

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    3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands, while You favor the plans of the wicked?

  • Matt 15:19
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    19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders.

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    15Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer! Call him to account for his wickedness until it is no more found.

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    17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

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    8Whose mouths speak falsehood and whose right hand is a right hand of deception.