'Injustice' in the Bible

‘You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.

“The Rock! His work is perfect,For all His ways are just;A God of faithfulness and without injustice,Righteous and upright is He.

And now, may the terror of the Lord be on you. Watch what you do, for there is no injustice or partiality or taking bribes with the Lord our God.”

In my experience, those who plow injusticeand those who sow trouble reap the same.

So the poor have hope,and injustice shuts its mouth.

Repent! Let there be no injustice; Change your ways! My vindication is at stake.

“Is there injustice on my tongue?Cannot my palate discern calamities?

if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it,and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents—

how much less one who is revolting and corrupt,who drinks injustice like water?

“For the company of the godless is barren,And fire consumes the tents of bribery (wrong and injustice).

Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed.If you banish injustice from your tent

The womb forgets them;worms feed on them;they are remembered no more.So injustice is broken like a tree.

Yahweh my God, if I have done this,if there is injustice on my hands,

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;There is no one who does good.

No, you practice injustice in your hearts;with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.

They devise acts of injustice, saying,“We are ready with a well-conceived plan.”For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep (mysterious, unsearchable).

They will proclaim: "The LORD is upright; my rock, in whom there is no injustice."

The upright see it and rejoice,and all injustice shuts its mouth.

The scepter of the wicked will not remainover the land allotted to the righteous,so that the righteous will not apply their hands to injustice.

The field of the poor may produce much food, but it can be swept away through injustice.

Better a little with righteousnessthan great income with injustice.

The one who sows injustice will reap disaster,and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

A man of injustice is an abomination to the righteous, but the {upright} is an abomination to the wicked.

For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; however, he must hand over the fruit of his labor as an inheritance to someone else who did not work for it. This also is futile, and an awful injustice!

This [is] the {injustice} that is done under the sun: the same fate [comes] to everyone. Also the hearts of {humans} are full [of] evil; delusion [is] in their hearts during their lives, and then they die.

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hostsis the house of Israel,and the men of Judah,the plant He delighted in.He looked for justicebut saw injustice,for righteousness,but heard cries of wretchedness.

Isn't this the fast that I have been choosing: to loose the bonds of injustice, and to untie the cords of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

For your hands are defiled with bloodand your fingers, with iniquity;your lips have spoken lies,and your tongues mutter injustice.

For I Yahweh love justice;I hate robbery and injustice;I will faithfully reward themand make an everlasting covenant with them.

Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain?

Woe for the one who builds his palacethrough unrighteousness,his upper rooms through injustice,who makes his fellow man serve without payand will not give him his wages,

You have seen my injustice, O Yahweh; judge my case.

And {when the righteous turns from his righteousness} and does injustice, and I place a stumbling block {before him}, he will die, for you did not warn him. Because of his sin he will die, and his righteousness that he did will not be remembered, and his blood I shall seek from your hand.

"The house of Israel and Judah is guilty and theirs is a stubborn guilt, at that!" he replied to me. "The land is filled with blood, and the city overflows with injustice, because they keep saying, "The LORD has abandoned the land,' and "The LORD isn't watching.'

[and] {he does not charge interest} and he takes no usury, [and] he holds back his hand from injustice [and] he executes judgment of fairness between {persons},

And {when the righteous turns} from his righteousness, so that he does injustice, and does all of the detestable things that the wicked do, then will he live [because of] all of his righteousness that he did? [Those things] will not be remembered because of his infidelity that he displayed, and because of his {sin that he committed}. Through them he shall die.

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and he does injustice, then he will die because of them; because of his injustice that he did he will die!

When I say to the righteous, 'Certainly he will live,' and he trusted in his righteousness, and he [turns and he] does injustice, all of his righteousness will not be remembered, and because of his injustice that he did, because of it he will die.

[for example], [the] wicked returns a pledge for a loan, he restores {stolen property}, he goes in the statutes of life [so as] not to do injustice--certainly he will live; he will not die.

When [the] righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die {because of it}.

Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not appeased the Lord our God by turning from our iniquities and paying attention to Your truth.

Seventy weeks are decreedabout your people and your holy city—to bring the rebellion to an end,to put a stop to sin,to wipe away iniquity,to bring in everlasting righteousness,to seal up vision and prophecy,and to anoint the most holy place.

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice;you have eaten the fruit of lies.Because you have trusted in your own wayand in your large number of soldiers,

who build Zion with bloodshedand Jerusalem with injustice.

Why do You force me to look at injustice?Why do You tolerate wrongdoing?Oppression and violence are right in front of me.Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.

Your eyes are too pure to approve evil,And You cannot look favorably on wickedness.Why then do You look favorablyOn those who act treacherously?Why are you silent when the wicked (Chaldean oppressors) destroyThose more righteous than they?

Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshedand founds a town with injustice!

The Lord is righteous within her;He will do no injustice.Every morning He brings His justice to light;He does not fail.But the unjust knows no shame.

“If he hates and divorces his wife,” says the Lord God of Israel, “he covers his garment with injustice,” says the Lord of Hosts. Therefore, watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously.

But the owner of the estate replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no injustice. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?

and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian;

'On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?

and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?

Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!

Therefore, to have legal disputes against one another is already a moral failure for you. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather be cheated?

but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!

It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth.

for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

“You have loved righteousness [integrity, virtue, uprightness in purpose] and have hated lawlessness [injustice, sin].Therefore God, Your God, Has anointed YouWith the oil of gladness above Your companions.”