injustice

¹⁵Those who justify the impious, and those who condemn the just, both are abominable with God.

⁸I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.

³Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place. ⁴For if you will indeed accomplish this word, then there will enter through the gates of this house kings from the stock of David, sitting on his throne, and riding on chariots and on horses: they, and their servants, and their people. ⁵But if you will not listen to these words, I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this house will be in desolation.

²For you are God, my strength. Why have you rejected me? And why do I walk in sadness, while the adversary afflicts me?

⁸Open your mouth for the mute and for all the cases of the sons who are passing through. ⁹Open your mouth, declare what is just, and do justice to the indigent and the poor.

¹⁵You shall not do what is unjust, nor shall you judge unjustly. You shall not consider the reputation of the poor, nor shall you honor the countenance of the powerful. Judge your neighbor justly.

⁸But finally, there is the King who rules over the entire earth, which is subject to him.

²⁷The just abhor an impious man. And the impious abhor those who are on the right way. By keeping the word, the son shall be free from perdition.

⁸Therefore, because of this, I will beg the Lord, and place my eloquence before God. ⁹He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number. ¹⁰He gives rain over the face of the earth and irrigates all things with the waters. ¹¹He places the humble on high and encourages the grieving towards health. ¹²He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun. ¹³He catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse.

⁷You shall flee from lies. The innocent and the just you shall not kill. For I shun the impious.

¹⁷Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.

²How long will you judge unjustly and favor the faces of sinners?

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

¹⁵And he said to them: “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of men. But God knows your hearts. For what is lifted up by men is an abomination in the sight of God.