46 Bible Verses about Injustice, Hated By God

Jehovah hates these six things: Yes, seven are an abomination to him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run quickly to badness,read more.
A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.

A false scale balance is an abomination to Jehovah. A perfect weight is his delight.

Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah. Those who deal truly are his delight.

Justify the wicked or condemn the just. Both are abomination to Jehovah.

Judge me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation. Deliver me from deceitful and unjust people!

([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, defend me from those who attack me. Fight against those who fight against me. Use your shields, both small and large. Arise to help me. Hold your spear to block the way of those who pursue me. Say to me: I am your salvation.read more.
Let those who seek my life be put to shame and disgraced. Let those who plan my downfall be turned back in confusion. Let them be like chaff blown by the wind as the angel of Jehovah chases them. Let their path be dark and slippery as the angel of Jehovah pursues them. They hid their net in a pit for no reason. They dug the pit to trap me for no reason. Surprise them with destruction. Let the net that they hid catch them. Let them fall into their own pit and be destroyed.

Let their table before them become a snare. Let it become retribution and a trap. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see. Let their backs be continually bent. Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.read more.
Let their habitation be desolate and let no one live in their tents. For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. Charge them with crime upon crime. Do not let them come into your righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Jehovah revealed their plot to me so that I would understand. He showed me what they were doing. I was like an unquestioning lamb brought to the slaughter. I did not know that they were plotting against me. They were saying: Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we will not be reminded of him anymore. O Jehovah of Hosts, you are a fair judge. You test motives and thoughts. I want to see you take revenge on them. For that reason I presented my case to you.

Do pay close attention to me, O Jehovah! Listen to what my opponents are saying! Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before you to speak good on their behalf. I tried to turn away your wrath from them. Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.read more.
Let an outcry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring raiders upon them. For they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet. Yet You, O Jehovah, know all their deadly designs against me. Do not forgive their iniquity or blot out their sin from your sight. But may they be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger!

Give ear, O our God, for we are ridiculed. Let their words of shame be turned back upon them, and let them be given up to plunder in a land where they are prisoners. Do not let their wrongdoing be covered or their sin be washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

O Jehovah, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, O Judge of the earth, Render recompense to the proud. O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked exult?read more.
They utter speech. They speak arrogantly. All troublemakers brag about themselves. They crush your people, O Jehovah. They make those who belong to you suffer. They kill widows and foreigners, and they murder orphans. They say: Jehovah does not see it. The God of Jacob does not even pay attention to it.

They cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord, holy and true, before you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?

I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth.

He spoke an illustration to them emphasizing the need to pray and not become tired: There was a judge in a city that did not fear God and had no respect for man. There was a widow in that same city. She went to him asking for legal protection from her adversary.read more.
At first he refused. Then he thought about it and he said to himself, I do not fear God and have little respect for man. However this widow bothers me. For this reason I will avenge her. If she keeps coming to me she will wear me out. The Lord continued: Pay attention to what the unrighteous judge said. Should God avenge his chosen that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them? I say to you, that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, will the Son of man find faith on the earth when he comes?

Because oppressed people are robbed and needy people groan, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will provide safety for those who long for it.

Can wicked rulers be allied with you? They frame mischief by decree (the law). They join forces to take the lives of righteous people. They condemn innocent people to death. Jehovah has become my stronghold. My God has become my rock of refuge.read more.
He has turned their wickedness against them. He will destroy them because of their sins. Jehovah our God will destroy them.

It is a righteous thing for God to repay with affliction (great suffering and distress) those who afflict you. You who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: God will render to him according to his works.

Jehovah knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to preserve the unrighteous for the Day of Judgment. (Psalm 34:19) (Matthew 25:46)

Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God pronounced judgment for you against her.

True and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her fornication. And has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

How horrible it will be for those who enact unjust laws and who decree oppressive regulations. They deprive the poor of justice. They take away the rights of the needy among my people. They prey on widows and rob orphans. What will you do on the day you are called to account for these things, when destruction comes from far away? Where will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Never pervert justice. Always be impartial. Never take a bribe, because bribes blind wise people and deny justice to those who are in the right.

I will not hold back punishment, said Jehovah, For the many transgressions of Damascus. This is because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron. I will send fire to the house of Hazael and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands). They covet fields and seize them. They covet houses and confiscate them! They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. Therefore Jehovah says: Behold, against this family I plan bad things, from which you will not remove the burden. You will not be able to show pride for it is an evil time.

Cursed is he who moves his neighbor's boundary mark. All the people will say: Amen.

Say to him: 'Jehovah says: Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage?' Then say: 'Jehovah says: Your blood will become the drink of dogs! You will go to the same place where the dogs drink the blood of Naboth.'

A false witness will not go unpunished. The liar will not escape.

A false witness will perish, but the man who hears the truth will speak forever.

You impose unfair rent on the poor and defraud a tribute of grain from them. You haave built houses of hewn stone yet you will not live in them. You planted pleasant vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them. I know you have many transgressions and your sins are great. You afflict the righteous. You take bribes. You refuse to help the needy at the gate.

Hear this, you who would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail. You say: When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit. We may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?read more.
Jehovah has sworn by the pride of Jacob: I will never forget any of their works.

Woe to the bloody city! It is full of lies and robbery! The prey does not leave.

I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.

If that servant says in his heart, my master delays his coming; and beats the other servants and eats and drinks to excess, the master of that servant will come when he does not expect. He will come in an hour that he does not know. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

But brother goes to court against brother, and this before unbelievers. It is already a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not let yourself be wronged? Why not let your selves be defrauded (cheated)? Instead you do wrong and defraud, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!

Let no man defraud his brother in any matter. Jehovah is the avenger of this. We also have warned you and testified.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are rusted. Their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up your treasure in the last days.read more.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts. You lived in luxury on the earth, and take your pleasure; you nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned, and you have killed the righteous one. He does not resist you.

Behold, he comes with the clouds. Every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn over him. So it will be, Amen.

([Psalm of David]) Do not be bothered by evildoers. Do not envy those who do wicked things. They will quickly dry up like grass and whither away like green plants.

I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy. They suffer no pain. Their bodies are healthy. They have no drudgery in their lives like ordinary people. They are not plagued with problems like mankind.read more.
That is why arrogance is their necklace and violence covers them like clothing. Their eyes stand out with fatness, and their heart's imagination run wild. They ridicule. They speak maliciously. They speak arrogantly about oppression. They set their mouth in the heavens and their tongue parades through the earth. Therefore his people return here and here they drink waters of abundance. They ask: How does God know? And is there knowledge with the most High?

Grace (favor) is shown to the wicked, but they do not learn righteousness. In a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and do not regard the majesty of Jehovah. O Jehovah, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame. Let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.

You are from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One, You are eternal. O Jehovah, you have appointed them (the Chaldean) to execute judgment. You, O Rock, have established them for correction. Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You cannot look at perversity. Why do you look at treacherous persons and not act? Why do you keep quiet when the wicked destroy the man who is more righteous?

Do not rob the poor because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate.

Do not (lie) accuse anyone falsely.

Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt. Do not mistreat any widow or orphan.

Do not deny justice to a poor person at his trial. Do not make false accusations. Do not put an innocent person to death. I will condemn anyone who does this evil thing. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe makes the discerning blind to what is right and perverts the words of the righteous.