LORD God of Israel, you are just: As a result, we remain here today delivered. Look at us! Because of our sin, we cannot stand in your presence as a result of everything that has happened."

Whoever would not come within three days would forfeit his assets and be separated from the community of the returning exiles, just as the high officials and elders had advised.

At this, the entire community responded with a loud cry, "We will do just as you've spoken!

However, many people are involved, and it's raining heavily. Furthermore, this is not just a matter of a day or two of work, because many of us have sinned in this.

So I called the priests and made them take an oath to fulfill this promise. I also shook my robes, and said, "May God shake out every man from his house and his possessions who does not keep this promise. May he be emptied out and shaken just like this." All the assembly said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD. And the people kept their promise.

Sanballat and Geshem sent word to me, saying "Come, let's meet together at Kephirim on the Ono Plain." But they were just trying to do me harm.

We the priests, the descendants of Levi, and the people cast lots to determine when to bring the wood offering into the Temple of our God, just as our ancestors' families were appointed annually to maintain the altar fire of the LORD our God, as recorded in the Law.

Now Esther had not declared her heritage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her, for Esther did what Mordecai told her just as she had done when she was raised by him.

The king said, "Who is in the courtyard?" Now Haman had just entered the outer courtyard of the palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the pole he had set up.

Then the king told Haman, "Quick! Take the clothes and the horse just as you have suggested and do this for Mordecai the Jew who sits in the king's gate. And don't let anything you've suggested fall through the cracks."

Indeed, I and my people have been sold to be annihilated, killed, and destroyed. If we had just been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because the trouble wouldn't have been sufficient to bother the king."

establishing these days of Purim at the prescribed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established, and just as the Jewish people had established for themselves and for their descendants. The letter included instructions for their fasting and lamentations.

Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, he is under your control. Just preserve his life."

But mankind is born headed for trouble, just as sparks soar skyward."

You'll go to your grave at a ripe old age; like a stack of grain that's harvested at just the right time.

"The arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit absorbs their poison; God's terrors have been arranged just for me!

that God would just be willing to crush me; that he would let loose and eliminate me!

"And now you're all just like them, aren't you? You see my terror and are terrified.

Did you intend your words to reprove, even though the speech of a desperate person is just wind?

The ear scrutinizes speech just as the palate tastes food."

I wish you'd all just shut up. Then at least you would appear to be wise.

Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay."

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

Will he acquit you just because you fear him, and render a verdict on your behalf?

They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn.

I put on righteousness like clothing; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.

Look! As far as God is concerned, I'm just like you are I, too, have been pinched off from a piece of clay.

"Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, "I'm more righteous than God?'

Indeed would you annul my justice and condemn me, just so you can claim that you're righteous?

"Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him.

He will judge the world righteously and make just decisions for the people.

LORD, hear my just plea! Pay attention to my cry! Listen to my prayer, since it does not come from lying lips.

The LORD is good and just; therefore he will teach sinners concerning the way.

LORD, how long will you just watch? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from these young lions.

Hear my prayer, LORD, pay attention to my cry, and do not ignore my tears. I am an alien in your presence, a stranger just like my ancestors were.

As for me, you will maintain my just cause, and you will cause me to stand in your presence forever.

Just as we have heard, so have we seen; in the city of the LORD of the heavenly armies even in the city of our God God will establish her forever. Interlude

But humanity cannot last, despite its conceit; it will pass away just like the animals.

Humanity, despite its conceit, does not understand that it will perish, just like the animals. A song of Asaph.

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done what was evil in your sight. As a result, you are just in your pronouncement and clear in your judgment.

Just as I am satisfied with the choicest of foods, so my lips will praise you joyfully.

Just look at these wicked people! They're perpetually carefree as they increase their wealth.

One thousand years in your sight are but a single day that passes by, just like a night watch.

Whatever he does is reliable and just, and all his precepts are trustworthy,

A light shines in the darkness for the upright, for the one who is gracious, compassionate, and just.

He will never be shaken; the one who is just will always be remembered.

May your gracious love come to me, LORD, your salvation, just as you said.

I know, LORD, that your decrees are just, and that you have rightfully humbled me.

I truly consider all of your precepts all of them to be just, while I despise every false way. Peyh

Just as mountains encircle Jerusalem, so the LORD encircles his people, from now to eternity.

Just as one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered near the entrance to the place of the dead.

guarding the paths of the just and protecting the way of his faithful ones.

Then you will understand what is right, just, and upright every good path.

because the LORD corrects the person he loves, just as a father corrects the son he delights in.

Therefore, I've come out to meet you, I've looked just for you, and I found you!

Everything I have to say is just; there isn't anything corrupt or perverse in my speech.

I walk on the way of righteousness, along paths that are just,

Just as the fool considers wickedness his joy, so is wisdom to the discerning man.

The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the stupidity of fools is just that stupidity!

Condemnation is appropriate for mockers, just as beatings are for the backs of fools.

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Devastation caused by the wicked will drag them away because they refuse to do what is just.

Just as the heavens are high and earth is deep, so the heart of a king is unfathomable.

Don't answer a fool according to his foolishness, or you will be just like him.

Just as water reflects the face, so the heart reflects the person.

Just as whipping milk produces butter, and twisting the nose causes bleeding, so also stirring up anger produces contention.

I decided to indulge in wine, while still remaining committed to wisdom. I also tried to indulge in foolishness, just enough to determine whether it was good for human beings under heaven given the short time of their lives.

I concluded that wisdom is more useful than foolishness, just as light is more useful than darkness.

For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless.

Just as he came naked from his mother's womb, he will leave as naked as he came; he will receive no profit from his efforts he cannot carry away even a handful.

Indeed, wisdom gives protection, just like money does, but it's better to know that wisdom gives life, to those who have mastered it.

Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Just as you do not understand the way of the spirit in the womb of a pregnant mother, so also you do not know what God is doing in everything he makes.

I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and wouldn't let him go until I brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me.

"At that time, seven women will cling tightly to one man and will make him this offer: "We'll provide our own bread. We'll provide our own clothes. Just let us marry you so we won't be stigmatized anymore.'"

In just a little while, my fury will come to an end, and my anger then will be directed to their destruction.

In answer, all of them will tell you, "You've also become as weak as we are! You have become just like us!'

The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has sworn: "Surely as I have planned, that's what she will become; and just as I have determined, so will it remain

Then the LORD said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has walked around naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a warning for Egypt and Ethiopia,

and the noise of foreigners is like the heat of the desert. Just as you subdue heat by the shade of clouds, so the victory songs of violent men will be stilled.

For the LORD's power will rest on this mountain, but the Moabites will be trodden down beneath him, just as straw is trodden down in the slime of a manure pit.

They will spread out their hands in the thick of it, just as swimmers spread out their hands to swim, but the LORD will bring down their pride, together with the cleverness of their hands.

Just as a pregnant woman writhes and cries out during her labor when she is about to give birth, so were we because of you, LORD.

Has the LORD struck them down, just as he struck down those who struck them? Or have they been killed, just as their killers were killed?

To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? To children just weaned from milk? To those just taken from the breast?

to Egypt, which gives help that is worthless and useless. Therefore I call her, "Rahab, who just sits still.'"

For this is what the LORD told me: "Just as a lion or a young lion growls over his objects of prey, even when a whole band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not alarmed at their shouting or disturbed by their clamor so the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its hill.

Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause.

Your plunder is gathered as when grasshoppers gather; just like locusts pounce, people have pounced on it.

I've been swept bare until morning; just like a lion, he breaks all my bones day and night you make an end of me.

The living yes the living they thank you, just as I am doing today; fathers will tell their children about your faithfulness.

"You are stirring up one from the north, and they are coming from the rising of the sun; and he will be called by his name. Rulers will arrive like mud; just like a potter, he will trample the clay.

"See, they are just like stubble; fire burns them up. They could not even save themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals for warming oneself, no fire to sit by.

"Lift up your eyes, you heavens and look to the earth beneath; and see who created these. Its inhabitants will die just like this; but my salvation will be forever, and my deliverance will never fail.

For moths will eat them up just like a garment, and worms will devour them like wool; but my deliverance will last forever, and my salvation to all generations.

Just as many were astonished at you so was he marred in his appearance, more than any human, and his form beyond that of human semblance

"For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

"For just as the rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, yielding seed for the sower and bread for eating,

"Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say: "The LORD will surely exclude me from his people.' Furthermore, let no eunuch say, "Look! I am just a dry tree.'"