Rulers

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Psalms 58:1 OT

  Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

• Psalms 58:2 OT

  No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

• Psalms 82:2 OT

  “How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?”

• Psalms 94:20 OT

  Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

• Psalms 94:21 OT

  They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

• Psalms 110:5 OT

  The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

• Proverbs 17:15 OT

  He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

• Proverbs 17:26 OT

  Also to punish the righteous is not good, nor to flog officials for their integrity.

• Proverbs 28:15 OT

  As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

• Proverbs 28:28 OT

  When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous thrive.

• Proverbs 29:12 OT

  If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

• Proverbs 30:21 OT

  “For three things the earth trembles, and under four, it can’t bear up:

• Proverbs 30:22 OT

  For a servant when he is king, a fool when he is filled with food,

• Ecclesiastes 3:16 OT

  Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

• Ecclesiastes 3:17 OT

  I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

• Ecclesiastes 4:1 OT

  Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

• Ecclesiastes 4:13 OT

  Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

• Ecclesiastes 4:14 OT

  For out of prison he came out to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

• Ecclesiastes 5:8 OT

  If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

• Ecclesiastes 8:9 OT

  All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

• Ecclesiastes 10:5-7 OT

  There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler. Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place. I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the…

• Isaiah 1:23 OT

  Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

• Isaiah 3:12 OT

  As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

• Isaiah 3:14 OT

  Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.