8 Bible Verses about Wicked Rulers
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Where the righteous have the over hand, the people are in prosperity; but where the ungodly beareth rule, there the people mourn.
For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous put their hand unto wickedness.
Like as a roaring lion and a hungry bear, even so is an ungodly prince over the poor people.
Woe be unto you that make unrighteous laws, and devise things, which be too hard for to keep:
yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.
Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.
Thy rulers in thee are like ravishing wolves, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, for their own covetous lucre.
The LORD shall come forth to reason with the senators and princes of his people, and shall say thus unto them, "It is ye that have burnt up my vineyard; the robbery of the poor is in your house.
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Like as a roaring lion and a hungry bear, even so is an ungodly prince over the poor people.
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Like as a roaring lion and a hungry bear, even so is an ungodly prince over the poor people.
O hear this, ye rulers of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: ye that abhor the thing that is lawful, and wrest aside the thing that is straight; Ye that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with doing wrong. O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us." read more.
Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be plowed like a field: Jerusalem shall become a heap of stones, and the hill of the temple shall be turned to a high wood.
