PSALMS 99 : 4
The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this.
Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness;
First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
For I know how many your offenses, And how great are your sins-- You who afflict the just, Who take a bribe, And who turn aside the needy in the courts.
In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, To love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin,{ cumin is an aromatic seed from Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance. It is used as a spice.} and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has."
They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold the doves.
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."
He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is appointed to you."
When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.