Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and...

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New International Version - If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.
新标点和合本 - 你若在一省之中见穷人受欺压，并夺去公义公平的事，不要因此诧异；因有一位高过居高位的鉴察，在他们以上还有更高的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你若在一个地区看见穷人受欺压，公义公平被掠夺，不要因此惊奇；有一位高过居高位的在鉴察，在他们之上还有更高的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你若在一个地区看见穷人受欺压，公义公平被掠夺，不要因此惊奇；有一位高过居高位的在鉴察，在他们之上还有更高的。
当代译本 - 若你在某地看见穷人受欺压，公平正义被践踏，不要震惊，因为官上有官，在众官之上还有更高的官鉴察。
圣经新译本 - 如果你在一省之中，看到穷人遭受欺压，公正和公义被夺去，也不必因此惊讶，因为高位者之上有较高的照应，在他们之上还有更高的。
中文标准译本 - 如果你在某一省中看到穷人受欺压，公正和公义被夺去，不要因此感到惊奇，因为高位者之上有更高的在保护他，在他们之上还有更高的保护他们。
现代标点和合本 - 你若在一省之中见穷人受欺压，并夺去公义、公平的事，不要因此诧异。因有一位高过居高位的鉴察，在他们以上还有更高的。
和合本（拼音版） - 你若在一省之中见穷人受欺压，并夺去公义、公平的事，不要因此诧异。因有一位高过居高位的鉴察，在他们以上还有更高的。
New International Reader's Version - Suppose you see poor people being mistreated somewhere. And what is being done to them isn’t right or fair. Don’t be surprised by that. One official is watched by a higher one. Officials who are even higher are watching both of them.
English Standard Version - If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
New Living Translation - Don’t be surprised if you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and if justice is being miscarried throughout the land. For every official is under orders from higher up, and matters of justice get lost in red tape and bureaucracy.
The Message - Don’t be too upset when you see the poor kicked around, and justice and right violated all over the place. Exploitation filters down from one petty official to another. There’s no end to it, and nothing can be done about it. But the good earth doesn’t cheat anyone—even a bad king is honestly served by a field.
Christian Standard Bible - If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.
New American Standard Bible - If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight; for one official watches over another official, and there are higher officials over them.
New King James Version - If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for high official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.
Amplified Bible - If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight [of corruption]; for a higher official watches over another official, and there are higher ones over them [looking out for one another].
American Standard Version - If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.
King James Version - If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
New English Translation - If you see the extortion of the poor, or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. For the high official is watched by a higher official, and there are higher ones over them!
World English Bible - If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
新標點和合本 - 你若在一省之中見窮人受欺壓，並奪去公義公平的事，不要因此詫異；因有一位高過居高位的鑒察，在他們以上還有更高的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你若在一個地區看見窮人受欺壓，公義公平被掠奪，不要因此驚奇；有一位高過居高位的在鑒察，在他們之上還有更高的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你若在一個地區看見窮人受欺壓，公義公平被掠奪，不要因此驚奇；有一位高過居高位的在鑒察，在他們之上還有更高的。
當代譯本 - 若你在某地看見窮人受欺壓，公平正義被踐踏，不要震驚，因為官上有官，在眾官之上還有更高的官鑒察。
聖經新譯本 - 如果你在一省之中，看到窮人遭受欺壓，公正和公義被奪去，也不必因此驚訝，因為高位者之上有較高的照應，在他們之上還有更高的。
呂振中譯本 - 你若在一省之中見有窮乏人受欺壓、而公平公義的權利被剝奪，你不要因這事而詫異；因為有一位高於居高位者在鑒察着，而在他們以上還有更高的。
中文標準譯本 - 如果你在某一省中看到窮人受欺壓，公正和公義被奪去，不要因此感到驚奇，因為高位者之上有更高的在保護他，在他們之上還有更高的保護他們。
現代標點和合本 - 你若在一省之中見窮人受欺壓，並奪去公義、公平的事，不要因此詫異。因有一位高過居高位的鑒察，在他們以上還有更高的。
文理和合譯本 - 若在州中見貧者受虐、或見強者奪公義、勿以為異、蓋有居位較高者鑒之、又有更高者在焉、
文理委辦譯本 - 爾觀州邑強暴、虐貧枉法、則勿殷憂、人雖居高位、更有尊於彼者、鑒察其所為、其上又有至尊至高者。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 然有王受國人之服役、凡事究於國有益、或作王營謀農事於國為益莫大
Nueva Versión Internacional - Si en alguna provincia ves que se oprime al pobre, y que a la gente se le niega un juicio justo, no te asombres de tales cosas; porque a un alto oficial lo vigila otro más alto, y por encima de ellos hay otros altos oficiales.
현대인의 성경 - 가난한 사람이 학대받는 것과 정의가 무시당하는 것을 보아도 너는 놀라지 말아라. 모든 관리는 자기보다 더 높은 사람의 감시를 받고 있다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Но все же лучше для страны, чтобы у нее был царь, заботящийся о земле .
Восточный перевод - Но всё же лучше для страны, чтобы у неё был царь, заботящийся о земле .
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но всё же лучше для страны, чтобы у неё был царь, заботящийся о земле .
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но всё же лучше для страны, чтобы у неё был царь, заботящийся о земле .
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais malgré tout, ceci demeure dans l’intérêt du pays : qu’au profit de l’agriculture, on se soumette au roi .
リビングバイブル - 貧しい人が金持ちにいじめられ、国中で正義が踏みにじられているのを見ても、別に驚くにあたりません。どの役人にも上役がいて、その上にさらに高官がいるからです。それが国の政治の仕組みなのです。
Nova Versão Internacional - Se você vir o pobre oprimido numa província e vir que lhe são negados o direito e a justiça, não fique surpreso; pois todo oficial está subordinado a alguém que ocupa posição superior, e sobre os dois há outros em posição ainda mais alta.
Hoffnung für alle - So ist es wohl besser für ein Land, wenn es einen König hat, der für Recht und Ordnung sorgt .
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Đừng ngạc nhiên nếu con thấy cảnh người nghèo bị áp bức và công lý bị chà đạp trong xứ. Vì mỗi công chức đều phục vụ người cao cấp hơn mình, cấp này lại phục vụ cấp khác cao hơn nữa.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - หากท่านเห็นคนจนในเมืองถูกข่มเหงรังแกและเห็นความยุติธรรมและสิทธิถูกละเลยในที่ใดก็ตาม อย่าฉงนสนเท่ห์เลย เพราะเจ้าหน้าที่ทุกคนอยู่ใต้บังคับบัญชาของผู้ที่อยู่เหนือเขาและเหนือกว่านั้นขึ้นไปก็ยังมีผู้บังคับบัญชาสูงขึ้นไปอีก
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ถ้าท่านเห็นว่าที่ใดมีคนยากจนถูกกดขี่ข่มเหง ความยุติธรรมและสิทธิของเขาถูกยึดไป ท่านก็อย่าแปลกใจในเรื่องดังกล่าว เพราะเจ้าหน้าที่ชั้นสูงถูกเฝ้ามองโดยผู้สูงกว่า และยังมีบรรดาผู้สูงกว่าที่ดูแลอยู่เหนือพวกเขาอีกด้วย

交叉引用

Job 20:19 - For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.
Job 20:20 - “Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.
Job 20:21 - Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.
Job 20:22 - In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.
Job 20:23 - When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.
Job 20:24 - Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.
Job 20:25 - He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;
Job 20:26 - total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
Job 20:27 - The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.
Job 20:28 - A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
Job 20:29 - Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.”
1 Peter 4:12 - Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
Luke 1:35 - The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
Psalm 10:17 - You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
Psalm 10:18 - defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror.
Psalm 55:9 - Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.
Isaiah 37:36 - Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
Psalm 95:3 - For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods.
Micah 2:1 - Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.
Micah 2:2 - They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
Micah 2:3 - Therefore, the Lord says: “I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
Acts 4:27 - Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.
Acts 4:28 - They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.
Amos 5:12 - For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
Isaiah 3:15 - What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
Isaiah 5:7 - The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
Isaiah 57:15 - For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Jeremiah 22:17 - “But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.”
Jeremiah 22:18 - Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
Jeremiah 22:19 - He will have the burial of a donkey— dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.”
Acts 12:23 - Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Micah 3:9 - Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right;
Micah 3:10 - who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
Micah 3:11 - Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.”
Micah 3:12 - Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
Matthew 13:41 - The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
Matthew 13:42 - They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Proverbs 8:17 - I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
Micah 6:10 - Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house, and the short ephah, which is accursed?
Micah 6:11 - Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales, with a bag of false weights?
Micah 6:12 - Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.
Micah 6:13 - Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.
Amos 6:12 - Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness—
Zechariah 8:6 - This is what the Lord Almighty says: “It may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at that time, but will it seem marvelous to me?” declares the Lord Almighty.
Isaiah 10:12 - When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.
Zechariah 7:9 - “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.
Zechariah 7:10 - Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
Zechariah 7:11 - “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears.
Zechariah 7:12 - They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.
Zechariah 7:13 - “ ‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Amos 8:4 - Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
Amos 8:5 - saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”— skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,
Amos 8:6 - buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
Amos 8:7 - The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.
James 2:13 - because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Amos 6:2 - Go to Kalneh and look at it; go from there to great Hamath, and then go down to Gath in Philistia. Are they better off than your two kingdoms? Is their land larger than yours?
Amos 6:3 - You put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of terror.
Amos 6:4 - You lie on beds adorned with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.
Amos 6:5 - You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments.
Amos 6:6 - You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
Revelation 17:6 - I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.
Revelation 17:7 - Then the angel said to me: “Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns.
1 Chronicles 21:15 - And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:16 - David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
Micah 2:9 - You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever.
1 John 3:13 - Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
James 5:2 - Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
James 5:3 - Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
James 5:4 - Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
James 5:5 - You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.
James 5:6 - You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
James 5:7 - Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.
Habakkuk 1:2 - How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?
Habakkuk 1:3 - Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.
Isaiah 59:13 - rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.
Isaiah 59:14 - So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.
Isaiah 59:15 - Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
Isaiah 59:16 - He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm achieved salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him.
Luke 1:76 - And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
Acts 12:7 - Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
Acts 12:8 - Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him.
Acts 12:9 - Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision.
Acts 12:10 - They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.
Psalm 140:11 - May slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down the violent.
Psalm 140:12 - I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.
Romans 11:33 - Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
Micah 3:1 - Then I said, “Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice,
Micah 3:2 - you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;
Micah 3:3 - who eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?”
Micah 3:4 - Then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.
Ezekiel 22:6 - “ ‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:7 - In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 22:8 - You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:9 - In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.
Ezekiel 22:10 - In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.
Ezekiel 22:11 - In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
Ezekiel 22:12 - In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 22:13 - “ ‘I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst.
Ezekiel 22:14 - Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.
Psalm 58:10 - The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalm 58:11 - Then people will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
Isaiah 10:5 - “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!
Isaiah 10:6 - I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
Isaiah 10:7 - But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.
Job 27:8 - For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?
Job 27:9 - Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?
Job 27:10 - Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?
Job 27:11 - “I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
Job 27:12 - You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
Job 27:13 - “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
Job 27:14 - However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
Job 27:15 - The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
Job 27:16 - Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
Job 27:17 - what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
Job 27:18 - The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
Job 27:19 - He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
Job 27:20 - Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
Job 27:21 - The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Job 27:22 - It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
Job 27:23 - It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.”
Isaiah 46:10 - I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’
Isaiah 46:11 - From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that I will bring about; what I have planned, that I will do.
Luke 1:32 - He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
Habakkuk 1:12 - Lord, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
Habakkuk 1:13 - Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Psalm 83:18 - Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
Malachi 3:5 - “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.
Psalm 82:1 - God presides in the great assembly; he renders judgment among the “gods”:
1 Kings 21:19 - Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’ ”
1 Kings 21:20 - Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!” “I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 3:16 - And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
Ecclesiastes 4:1 - Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.
Psalm 12:5 - “Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”

逐节对照

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New International Version - If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.
新标点和合本 - 你若在一省之中见穷人受欺压，并夺去公义公平的事，不要因此诧异；因有一位高过居高位的鉴察，在他们以上还有更高的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你若在一个地区看见穷人受欺压，公义公平被掠夺，不要因此惊奇；有一位高过居高位的在鉴察，在他们之上还有更高的。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你若在一个地区看见穷人受欺压，公义公平被掠夺，不要因此惊奇；有一位高过居高位的在鉴察，在他们之上还有更高的。
当代译本 - 若你在某地看见穷人受欺压，公平正义被践踏，不要震惊，因为官上有官，在众官之上还有更高的官鉴察。
圣经新译本 - 如果你在一省之中，看到穷人遭受欺压，公正和公义被夺去，也不必因此惊讶，因为高位者之上有较高的照应，在他们之上还有更高的。
中文标准译本 - 如果你在某一省中看到穷人受欺压，公正和公义被夺去，不要因此感到惊奇，因为高位者之上有更高的在保护他，在他们之上还有更高的保护他们。
现代标点和合本 - 你若在一省之中见穷人受欺压，并夺去公义、公平的事，不要因此诧异。因有一位高过居高位的鉴察，在他们以上还有更高的。
和合本（拼音版） - 你若在一省之中见穷人受欺压，并夺去公义、公平的事，不要因此诧异。因有一位高过居高位的鉴察，在他们以上还有更高的。
New International Reader's Version - Suppose you see poor people being mistreated somewhere. And what is being done to them isn’t right or fair. Don’t be surprised by that. One official is watched by a higher one. Officials who are even higher are watching both of them.
English Standard Version - If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
New Living Translation - Don’t be surprised if you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and if justice is being miscarried throughout the land. For every official is under orders from higher up, and matters of justice get lost in red tape and bureaucracy.
The Message - Don’t be too upset when you see the poor kicked around, and justice and right violated all over the place. Exploitation filters down from one petty official to another. There’s no end to it, and nothing can be done about it. But the good earth doesn’t cheat anyone—even a bad king is honestly served by a field.
Christian Standard Bible - If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.
New American Standard Bible - If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight; for one official watches over another official, and there are higher officials over them.
New King James Version - If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for high official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.
Amplified Bible - If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight [of corruption]; for a higher official watches over another official, and there are higher ones over them [looking out for one another].
American Standard Version - If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.
King James Version - If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
New English Translation - If you see the extortion of the poor, or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. For the high official is watched by a higher official, and there are higher ones over them!
World English Bible - If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
新標點和合本 - 你若在一省之中見窮人受欺壓，並奪去公義公平的事，不要因此詫異；因有一位高過居高位的鑒察，在他們以上還有更高的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你若在一個地區看見窮人受欺壓，公義公平被掠奪，不要因此驚奇；有一位高過居高位的在鑒察，在他們之上還有更高的。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你若在一個地區看見窮人受欺壓，公義公平被掠奪，不要因此驚奇；有一位高過居高位的在鑒察，在他們之上還有更高的。
當代譯本 - 若你在某地看見窮人受欺壓，公平正義被踐踏，不要震驚，因為官上有官，在眾官之上還有更高的官鑒察。
聖經新譯本 - 如果你在一省之中，看到窮人遭受欺壓，公正和公義被奪去，也不必因此驚訝，因為高位者之上有較高的照應，在他們之上還有更高的。
呂振中譯本 - 你若在一省之中見有窮乏人受欺壓、而公平公義的權利被剝奪，你不要因這事而詫異；因為有一位高於居高位者在鑒察着，而在他們以上還有更高的。
中文標準譯本 - 如果你在某一省中看到窮人受欺壓，公正和公義被奪去，不要因此感到驚奇，因為高位者之上有更高的在保護他，在他們之上還有更高的保護他們。
現代標點和合本 - 你若在一省之中見窮人受欺壓，並奪去公義、公平的事，不要因此詫異。因有一位高過居高位的鑒察，在他們以上還有更高的。
文理和合譯本 - 若在州中見貧者受虐、或見強者奪公義、勿以為異、蓋有居位較高者鑒之、又有更高者在焉、
文理委辦譯本 - 爾觀州邑強暴、虐貧枉法、則勿殷憂、人雖居高位、更有尊於彼者、鑒察其所為、其上又有至尊至高者。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 然有王受國人之服役、凡事究於國有益、或作王營謀農事於國為益莫大
Nueva Versión Internacional - Si en alguna provincia ves que se oprime al pobre, y que a la gente se le niega un juicio justo, no te asombres de tales cosas; porque a un alto oficial lo vigila otro más alto, y por encima de ellos hay otros altos oficiales.
현대인의 성경 - 가난한 사람이 학대받는 것과 정의가 무시당하는 것을 보아도 너는 놀라지 말아라. 모든 관리는 자기보다 더 높은 사람의 감시를 받고 있다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Но все же лучше для страны, чтобы у нее был царь, заботящийся о земле .
Восточный перевод - Но всё же лучше для страны, чтобы у неё был царь, заботящийся о земле .
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но всё же лучше для страны, чтобы у неё был царь, заботящийся о земле .
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но всё же лучше для страны, чтобы у неё был царь, заботящийся о земле .
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais malgré tout, ceci demeure dans l’intérêt du pays : qu’au profit de l’agriculture, on se soumette au roi .
リビングバイブル - 貧しい人が金持ちにいじめられ、国中で正義が踏みにじられているのを見ても、別に驚くにあたりません。どの役人にも上役がいて、その上にさらに高官がいるからです。それが国の政治の仕組みなのです。
Nova Versão Internacional - Se você vir o pobre oprimido numa província e vir que lhe são negados o direito e a justiça, não fique surpreso; pois todo oficial está subordinado a alguém que ocupa posição superior, e sobre os dois há outros em posição ainda mais alta.
Hoffnung für alle - So ist es wohl besser für ein Land, wenn es einen König hat, der für Recht und Ordnung sorgt .
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Đừng ngạc nhiên nếu con thấy cảnh người nghèo bị áp bức và công lý bị chà đạp trong xứ. Vì mỗi công chức đều phục vụ người cao cấp hơn mình, cấp này lại phục vụ cấp khác cao hơn nữa.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - หากท่านเห็นคนจนในเมืองถูกข่มเหงรังแกและเห็นความยุติธรรมและสิทธิถูกละเลยในที่ใดก็ตาม อย่าฉงนสนเท่ห์เลย เพราะเจ้าหน้าที่ทุกคนอยู่ใต้บังคับบัญชาของผู้ที่อยู่เหนือเขาและเหนือกว่านั้นขึ้นไปก็ยังมีผู้บังคับบัญชาสูงขึ้นไปอีก
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ถ้าท่านเห็นว่าที่ใดมีคนยากจนถูกกดขี่ข่มเหง ความยุติธรรมและสิทธิของเขาถูกยึดไป ท่านก็อย่าแปลกใจในเรื่องดังกล่าว เพราะเจ้าหน้าที่ชั้นสูงถูกเฝ้ามองโดยผู้สูงกว่า และยังมีบรรดาผู้สูงกว่าที่ดูแลอยู่เหนือพวกเขาอีกด้วย

Job 20:19 - For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.
Job 20:20 - “Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.
Job 20:21 - Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.
Job 20:22 - In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.
Job 20:23 - When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.
Job 20:24 - Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.
Job 20:25 - He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;
Job 20:26 - total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
Job 20:27 - The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.
Job 20:28 - A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
Job 20:29 - Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God.”
1 Peter 4:12 - Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
Luke 1:35 - The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
Psalm 10:17 - You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
Psalm 10:18 - defending the fatherless and the oppressed, so that mere earthly mortals will never again strike terror.
Psalm 55:9 - Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.
Isaiah 37:36 - Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
Psalm 95:3 - For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods.
Micah 2:1 - Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.
Micah 2:2 - They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
Micah 2:3 - Therefore, the Lord says: “I am planning disaster against this people, from which you cannot save yourselves. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
Acts 4:27 - Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.
Acts 4:28 - They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.
Amos 5:12 - For I know how many are your offenses and how great your sins. There are those who oppress the innocent and take bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
Isaiah 3:15 - What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
Isaiah 5:7 - The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
Isaiah 57:15 - For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Jeremiah 22:17 - “But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion.”
Jeremiah 22:18 - Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
Jeremiah 22:19 - He will have the burial of a donkey— dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.”
Acts 12:23 - Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Micah 3:9 - Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right;
Micah 3:10 - who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness.
Micah 3:11 - Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.”
Micah 3:12 - Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
Matthew 13:41 - The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
Matthew 13:42 - They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Proverbs 8:17 - I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
Micah 6:10 - Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house, and the short ephah, which is accursed?
Micah 6:11 - Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales, with a bag of false weights?
Micah 6:12 - Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.
Micah 6:13 - Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.
Amos 6:12 - Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness—
Zechariah 8:6 - This is what the Lord Almighty says: “It may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at that time, but will it seem marvelous to me?” declares the Lord Almighty.
Isaiah 10:12 - When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.
Zechariah 7:9 - “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.
Zechariah 7:10 - Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
Zechariah 7:11 - “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears.
Zechariah 7:12 - They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry.
Zechariah 7:13 - “ ‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Amos 8:4 - Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land,
Amos 8:5 - saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?”— skimping on the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,
Amos 8:6 - buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
Amos 8:7 - The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.
James 2:13 - because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Amos 6:2 - Go to Kalneh and look at it; go from there to great Hamath, and then go down to Gath in Philistia. Are they better off than your two kingdoms? Is their land larger than yours?
Amos 6:3 - You put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of terror.
Amos 6:4 - You lie on beds adorned with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.
Amos 6:5 - You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments.
Amos 6:6 - You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
Revelation 17:6 - I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.
Revelation 17:7 - Then the angel said to me: “Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns.
1 Chronicles 21:15 - And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:16 - David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
Micah 2:9 - You drive the women of my people from their pleasant homes. You take away my blessing from their children forever.
1 John 3:13 - Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
James 5:2 - Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
James 5:3 - Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
James 5:4 - Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
James 5:5 - You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.
James 5:6 - You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
James 5:7 - Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.
Habakkuk 1:2 - How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?
Habakkuk 1:3 - Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.
Isaiah 59:13 - rebellion and treachery against the Lord, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.
Isaiah 59:14 - So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.
Isaiah 59:15 - Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
Isaiah 59:16 - He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm achieved salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him.
Luke 1:76 - And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
Acts 12:7 - Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.
Acts 12:8 - Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him.
Acts 12:9 - Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision.
Acts 12:10 - They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him.
Psalm 140:11 - May slanderers not be established in the land; may disaster hunt down the violent.
Psalm 140:12 - I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.
Romans 11:33 - Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
Micah 3:1 - Then I said, “Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice,
Micah 3:2 - you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;
Micah 3:3 - who eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?”
Micah 3:4 - Then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.
Ezekiel 22:6 - “ ‘See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:7 - In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 22:8 - You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:9 - In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.
Ezekiel 22:10 - In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.
Ezekiel 22:11 - In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
Ezekiel 22:12 - In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 22:13 - “ ‘I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst.
Ezekiel 22:14 - Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.
Psalm 58:10 - The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalm 58:11 - Then people will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
Isaiah 10:5 - “Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!
Isaiah 10:6 - I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
Isaiah 10:7 - But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.
Job 27:8 - For what hope have the godless when they are cut off, when God takes away their life?
Job 27:9 - Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?
Job 27:10 - Will they find delight in the Almighty? Will they call on God at all times?
Job 27:11 - “I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
Job 27:12 - You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
Job 27:13 - “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
Job 27:14 - However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
Job 27:15 - The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
Job 27:16 - Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
Job 27:17 - what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
Job 27:18 - The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
Job 27:19 - He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
Job 27:20 - Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
Job 27:21 - The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Job 27:22 - It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
Job 27:23 - It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.”
Isaiah 46:10 - I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’
Isaiah 46:11 - From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that I will bring about; what I have planned, that I will do.
Luke 1:32 - He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
Habakkuk 1:12 - Lord, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, you will never die. You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment; you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
Habakkuk 1:13 - Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Psalm 83:18 - Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
Malachi 3:5 - “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.
Psalm 82:1 - God presides in the great assembly; he renders judgment among the “gods”:
1 Kings 21:19 - Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’ ”
1 Kings 21:20 - Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!” “I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 3:16 - And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment—wickedness was there, in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
Ecclesiastes 4:1 - Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed— and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter.
Psalm 12:5 - “Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”