8 Bible Verses about Wicked Rulers
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When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wrong.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,
Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.
The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
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Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
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Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight, who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity. Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us." read more.
Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.
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