Isaiah 1:17
1:17 Learn to do what is right!
Promote justice!
Give the oppressed reason to celebrate!
Take up the cause of the orphan!
Defend the rights of the widow!
Psalms 82:3-4
82:3 Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless!
Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!
82:4 Rescue the poor and needy!
Deliver them from the power of the wicked!
Jeremiah 21:12
21:12 O royal family descended from David.
The Lord says:
‘See to it that people each day are judged fairly.
Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them.
Otherwise, my wrath will blaze out against you.
It will burn like a fire that cannot be put out
because of the evil that you have done.
Jeremiah 22:3
22:3 The
Lord says, “Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those
who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows.
Do not kill innocent people
in this land.
Ezekiel 45:9-12
45:9 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the sovereign Lord.
45:10 You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath).
45:11 The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure.
45:12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you.
Daniel 4:27
4:27 Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps your prosperity will be prolonged.”
Zechariah 7:9
7:9 “The
Lord who rules over all said, ‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.