GOD KNOWS THE WORLD’S INJUSTICE

         Genesis 4:10

The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.” 

         Nehemiah 5:5-6

Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our countrymen and though our sons are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery.  Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.  When I heard their outcry and these charges, I was very angry. 

        Job 24:9-10

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt. Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. 

Psalm 10:2, 8-11

In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises.  He lies in wait near the villages; from ambush he murders the innocent, watching in secret for his victims.  He lies in wait like a lion in cover; he lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.  His victims are crushed, they collapse; they fall under his strength.  He says to himself, "God has forgotten; he covers his face and never sees.” 

Psalm 37:14

The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright. 

Psalm 58:2

No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.

Psalm 64:6

They plot injustice and say, "We have devised a perfect plan!" Surely the mind and heart of man are cunning.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And I saw something else under the sun: In the place of judgment-wickedness was there, in the place of justice-wickedness was there. 

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed- and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors- and they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8-9

If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.  The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields. 

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong. 

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden of his delight.  And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

Isaiah 32:7

The scoundrel's methods are wicked, he makes up evil schemes to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just. 

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.  Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 

Isaiah 59:4,8-9,11-16a

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.  The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths.  They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks in them will know peace.  So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us.  We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.  We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves.  We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away.  For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us.  Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and treachery against the LORD, turning our backs on our God, fomenting oppression and revolt, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.  So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.  Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice. He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene. 

Jeremiah 5:27-28

Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and powerful and have grown fat and sleek.  Their evil deeds have no limit; they do not plead the case of the fatherless to win it, they do not defend the rights of the poor.

Lamentations 3:34-36

To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land, to deny a man his rights before the Most High, to deprive a man of justice—would not the Lord see such things? 

Lamentations 5:11-13

Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah. Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.  Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Ezekiel 9:9 

He answered me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see. 

Joel 3:3

They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes; they sold girls for wine that they might drink.

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on the rocky crags?  Does one plow there with oxen?  But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness. 

Amos 8:4-6

Hear this, you who trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land, saying, “When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath ended that we may market what?–skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales, buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud a man of his home, a fellowman of his inheritance. 

Micah 7:2-3

The godly have been swept from the land; not one upright man remains. All men lie in wait to shed blood; each hunts his brother with a net.  Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, the powerful dictate what they desire–they all conspire together. 

Habakkuk 1:3-4

Why do you make me look at injustice?  Why do you tolerate wrong?  Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.  Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails.  The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted. 

Acts 8:33

In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.