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!
1:21 How tragic that the once-faithful city
has become a prostitute!
She was once a center of
fairness resided in her,
but now only murderers.
28:6 He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions,
and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.
28:17 I will make justice the measuring line,
fairness the plumb line;
hail will sweep away the unreliable refuge,
the floodwaters will overwhelm the hiding place.
33:5 The Lord is exalted,
indeed,
he fills Zion with justice and fairness.
40:14 From whom does he receive directions?
Who
or imparts knowledge to him,
or instructs him in skillful design?
42:3 A crushed reed he will not break,
a dim wick he will not extinguish;
he will faithfully make just decrees.
42:4 He will not grow dim or be crushed
before establishing justice on the earth;
the coastlands