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'Justice and Righteousness' in the Bible

May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel, because of the love of Yahweh for Israel forever, and he has made you king to execute justice and righteousness."

Blessed be Yahweh your God who took delight in you, to put you on his throne as king for Yahweh your God! Because your God loved Israel, he established him forever and has put you over them as king to do justice and righteousness!"

And [the] strength of [the] king loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

I have done justice and righteousness; do not leave me to my oppressors.

Do not be surprised if you see the poor being oppressed with violence or [do not see] justice and righteousness in the province. For one official is watched by a higher official, and [there are] even higher officials over them!

{His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end} on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.

Yahweh [is] exalted, for [he] dwells [on] high; he filled Zion [with] justice and righteousness,

Thus says Yahweh, "Act [with] justice and righteousness, and deliver [the] one who has been seized from the hand of [the] oppressor. And you must not oppress [the] immigrant, [the] orphan, and [the] widow. And you must not shed innocent blood in this place.

Do you reign as king because you [are] competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and he did justice and righteousness, then it was well with him?

"Look, days [are] coming," {declares} Yahweh, "when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign [as] king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land.

In those days and in that time I will make a branch of righteousness sprout for David, and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

And if a man is righteous and does justice and righteousness,

"Yet you say, 'Why [does] the son not bear the guilt of the father?' And [since] the son does justice and righteousness and he keeps all of my statutes and does them, he shall surely live!

But if the wicked returns from all of his sins that he has done and he keeps all of my statutes and he does justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die!

And when the wicked turns from his wickedness that he did and he does justice and righteousness, {he will preserve his life}.

And when I say to the wicked, 'Certainly you will die,' but he returns from his sin and he does justice and righteousness--

All of his {sins that he committed}, they will not be remembered against him, and he did justice and righteousness; certainly he will live.

And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and he does justice and righteousness, because of it {he will certainly live}!

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Enough [of this] for you, the princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness; revoke your [acts of] dispossession from upon my people!" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.