They have grown fat, they gleam. Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; they do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.

but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am Jehovah, doing kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, says Jehovah.

O house of David, thus says Jehovah: Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

You shall not thrust aside the justice of your needy one in his dispute.

And you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and perverts the words of the righteous.

You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Justice, only justice shall you follow, that you may live and inherit the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you.

If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

The God of Israel has said, the Rock of Israel has spoken to me: He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

when I went out to the gate through the city, when I set up my seat in the open square.

the rulers refrained from talking, and put their hand on their mouth;

When the ear heard, it blessed me, and when the eye saw, it bore witness to me;

The blessing of the dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

I broke the fangs of the perverse, and flung out the prey from his teeth.

He will judge Your people in righteousness, and Your lowly with justice.

He shall execute justice for the lowly of the people; He shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush in pieces the oppressor.

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for money; yet they lean on Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come upon us.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, Judge true justice, and show goodness and compassion, everyone to his brother.

But they refused to heed, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and they made their ears heavy that they might not hear.

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, to give him food and clothing.

If a man is found kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and has treated him as a slave or sold him, then that kidnapper shall die; thus you shall put away the evil from among you.

Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the sojourner, the fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen!

You have sent widows away empty, and crushed the arms of the fatherless.

They seize the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.

because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless and the one who had no one to help him.

In His holy dwelling God is a father to the fatherless, and a judge for the widows.

They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.

Do not remove the ancient landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;

Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe, and pursues rewards. They do not judge for the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the sojourner; in you they have mistreated the orphan and the widow.

And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those swearing to a lie; and against those who defraud the hired laborer of his pay, and turn away the widow, and the fatherless, and the alien; and who do not fear Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and to do violence.

if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;

Then the rulers and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Jehovah our God.

that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus there be blood upon you.

then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

They gather together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Learn to do good, seek justice, set straight the oppressor, judge for the orphan, plead for the widow.

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the sons of Judah, whose innocent blood they poured out in their land.