Quotes about Justice
Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
— Jeremiah 22:15
He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 22:16
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
— Jeremiah 23:5
For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
— Jeremiah 25:14
On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.
— Jeremiah 30:8
For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
— Jeremiah 30:11
There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
— Jeremiah 30:13
Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
— Jeremiah 31:30
In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
— Jeremiah 33:15
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
— Jeremiah 34:9
but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
— Jeremiah 34:11
I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
— Jeremiah 34:20