33 Bible Verses about Injustice

How long, O Jehovah, did I cry for help, and thou wilt not bear? I will cry to thee violence, and thou wilt not save.

The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand

Wherefore shall the unjust live? They grew old, also they were strong in power.

And I am struck all the day, and my reproofs for the mornings.

I saw all in the days of my vanity: there is a just one perishing in his justice, and there is an unjust one, being prolonged in his evil.

Thou shalt not turn away the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless; and thou shalt not take as a pledge the garment of the widow.

Thou shalt not turn away Judgment; thou shalt not look upon and thou shalt not take a gift, for the gift will blind the eyes of the wise and will pervert the words of the just.

How long will ye judge wickedness, and ye will lift up the faces of the unjust? Silence.

A man of iniquity is an abomination of the just; and the upright of way, an abomination of the unjust one.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink: Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction.

And two men will come, sons of Belial, and they will set before him: and the men of Belial will testify against Naboth before the people, saying, Naboth praised Jehovah and the king. And they will bring him without the city, and stone him with stones, and he will die.

And the chief priest Ananias commanded those standing by him to strike his month.

For by stealing, I was stolen from the land Of the Hebrews: and also here, I have not done anything that they put me in the pit

And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.

And Joseph's lord will take him and put him into the house of the fortress, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he shall be there in the house of the fortress.

Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit?

He increasing by interest and usury, he shall gather it for him compassionating the poor.

For this, because of your treading upon the poor one, and ye will take away the liftings up of wheat from him: ye built houses of hewn stone, and ye shall not dwell in them; ye planted vineyards of desire and ye shall not drink their wine.

In the death of an unjust man expectation shall perish: and the hope of the vain shall perish.

For this shall not the land be moved, and all dwelling in it, mourn? And it came up all of it as a river; and it was driven out and watered as the river of Egypt

Thou shalt not strip the poor because he is poor: and thou shalt not crush the humble in the gate. For Jehovah will contend their contention, and rob the soul to those robbing them.

He oppressing the poor one to increase for himself, he gave to the rich; also to want

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy needy in his cause.

How long will ye judge wickedness, and ye will lift up the faces of the unjust? Silence.

And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one.

For this, the law will be slack, and judgment will not go forth forever: for the unjust surrounds the just; for this perverted judgment will go forth.

They took a gift in thee to pour out blood; thou tookest usury and interest, and thou wilt plunder thy neighbors by violence, and thou didst forget me, says the Lord Jehovah.

And they desired fields, and they took by force; and houses, and they took away: and they oppressed a man and his house, and a man and his inheritance.

For from their little even to their great, every one plundering, plundered; and from the prophet and even to the priest every one did falsehood.

Cursing he turning away the judgment of the stranger, the orphan and the widow: and all the people said, Amen.

Cursed he removing the boundary of his neighbor: and all the people said, Amen.

Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

Ye shall not do evil in judgment, in tribute, in weight, and in measure.

A stone and stone, an ephah and ephah, an abomination of Jehovah, also they two.

He justifying the unjust one and he condemning the just one, is an abomination to Jehovah, also they two.

Were they ashamed when they did abomination? also shaming they will not be ashamed; also they knew not feeling shame; for this they shall fall with those falling: in the time of my reviewing them they shall faint, said Jehovah.

For from their little even to their great, every one plundering, plundered; and from the prophet and even to the priest every one did falsehood.

To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High. To pervert a man in his contention Jehovah saw not

Therefore truly, already is there wholly a misfortune in you, that ye have judgments with yourselves. Wherefore had ye not rather be treated ill? wherefore had ye not rather be defrauded?

And Pilate, seeing that it profits nothing, but there is rather an uproar, having taken water, he washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this just one: ye shall see yourselves. And all the people having answered, said, His blood upon us, and upon our children. Then he loosed to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, delivered him up, that, he might be crucified.

If thou shalt see the oppression of the poor one, and the spoiling of judgment and justice in a province, thou shalt not wonder at the inclination: for the high one above the high one is watching, and the high ones over them.

Thou shalt not treat evil the stranger, and thou shalt not press him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict.

A man of iniquity is an abomination of the just; and the upright of way, an abomination of the unjust one.

Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction.

And Joseph's lord will take him and put him into the house of the fortress, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he shall be there in the house of the fortress.

And his sons went not in his way, and they will incline after plunder, and they will take a gift, and they will turn away from judgment.

If I shall despise the judgment of my servant and my maid in their contending with me; And what shall I do when God shall rise up? And when he shall review, what shall I turn back to him?

But I say to you not to resist evil: but whosoever shall smite thee with a rod upon thy right cheek, turn to him also the other.

To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy; to David a poem. Will ye indeed speak dumb justice? will ye judge justly, ye sons of man? Also in heart ye will work evil; in the earth ye will roll the violence of your hands.

Saying, I have sinned, having delivered up guiltless blood. And they said, What to us? thou shalt see.

And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in.

Shall the unjust be shown favor? He learnt not justice; in the land of justice he will act perversely, and he will not see the majesty of Jehovah.

Thou shalt not be after multitudes for evil; thou shalt not answer for the multitude to stretch out after multitudes to pervert justice.

And two years completed, Felix took Porcius Festus, a successor: and wishing to render a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

From the oppression of the poor, from the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, Jehovah will say; I will set with salvation, he will puff at him.

He faithful in the least, is also faithful in much: and he unjust in the least, is also unjust in much.

Behold, the hire of laborers having reaped your farms, withheld by you, cries out, and the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up. For this, the law will be slack, and judgment will not go forth forever: for the unjust surrounds the just; for this perverted judgment will go forth.