Deuteronomy 25:1

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Summary

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

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Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people -- a righteous judgment.

When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke -- matters of strife within thy gates -- then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix,

then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are in those days,

'Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

He said -- the God of Israel -- to me, He spake -- the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man is righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God.

and saith unto the judges, 'See what ye are doing -- for not for man do ye judge, but for Jehovah, who is with you in the matter of judgment;

When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.

To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?

Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.

Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.

Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death.

Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for judgment they rule.

O house of David, thus said Jehovah: Decide ye judgment at morning, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, Lest My fury go forth as fire, And hath burned, and none is quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.

And concerning controversy, they stand up for judgment; with My judgments they judge it; and My law and My statutes in all My appointed places they keep; and My sabbaths they sanctify.

And I say, 'Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment?

Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.

And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast.