Ecclesiastes 5:8

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

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Summary

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Thou seest

Habakkuk 1:2

Marvel

Zechariah 8:6

1 John 3:13

Revelation 17:6

Matter

Romans 11:33

For

Isaiah 57:15

Luke 1:32

Regardeth

Higher than they

Acts 12:7

General references

Bible References

Thou seest

And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there is the wicked.

And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors is power, and they have no comforter.

Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

And man saith: 'Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me.

Till when, O Jehovah, have I cried, And Thou dost not hear? I cry unto Thee -- 'Violence,' and Thou dost not save.

Marvel

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Surely it is wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, Also in Mine eyes it is wonderful, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;

Matter

Woe to Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand is Mine indignation.

Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, 'My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'

Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And, O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it.

for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,

O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

For

For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy is His name: 'In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'

he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,

Regardeth

and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.'

For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.

The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

-- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

And they know that Thou -- (Thy name is Jehovah -- by Thyself,) Art the Most High over all the earth!

A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.

What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:

Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.

Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

Lo, princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.

For I have known -- many are your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

Pass ye over to Calneh and see, And go thence to Hamath the great, And go down to Gath of the Philistines, Are they better than these kingdoms? Greater is their border than your border?

Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

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?

Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

'Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

for the judgment without kindness is to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

Higher than they

and God sendeth a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying Jehovah hath seen, and is comforted concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who is destroying, 'Enough, now, cease thy hand.' And the messenger of Jehovah is standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,

For a great God is Jehovah, And a great king over all gods.

And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and men rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.

the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,

and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the buildings, and having smitten Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying, 'Rise in haste,' and his chains fell from off his hands.

General references

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

'And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there is the wicked.

Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence are before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift itself up,