Proverbs 20:8

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

But king Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will be established before Yahweh forever.”

He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish— vanish like smoke.

As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.

So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”

So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

“In those days and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David. He will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to Yahweh’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.

One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.

The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely, but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.

It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.