Character of God
Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.
He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.
If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.
and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.