Psalm 94:20

A Prayer For Retribution Against Oppressors

¹⁹ Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul. ²⁰ What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law? ²¹ They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

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Psalm 58:2

The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

Amos 6:3

You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;

Isaiah 10:1

Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

1 Samuel 22:12

And Saul said, Give ear now, O son of Ahitub. And answering he said, Here I am, my lord.

1 Kings 12:32

And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.

2 Chronicles 6:14-16

And he said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts;

Esther 3:6-12

But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Psalm 52:1

Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

Psalm 82:1

God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Isaiah 1:11-20

What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Jeremiah 7:4-11

Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

Daniel 3:4-7

Then one of the king's criers said in a loud voice, To you the order is given, O peoples, nations, and languages,

Daniel 6:7-9

All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

Micah 6:16

For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

John 9:22

They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.

John 11:57

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take him.

John 18:28

So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

1 John 1:5-6

This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

Revelation 13:15-17

And he had power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that words might come from the image of the beast, and that he might have all those who did not give worship to the image of the beast put to death.