Rulers

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Isaiah 3:15 OT

  What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

• Isaiah 5:7 OT

  For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

• Isaiah 10:1-3 OT

  Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees; to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make…

• Isaiah 14:4-20 OT

  that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!” Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, who struck the peoples in wrath with…

• Isaiah 28:14 OT

  Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

• Isaiah 28:15 OT

  “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under…

• Isaiah 29:20 OT

  For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

• Isaiah 29:21 OT

  who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

• Isaiah 30:33 OT

  For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

• Isaiah 33:1 OT

  Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

• Isaiah 40:23 OT

  who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

• Isaiah 52:5 OT

  “Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

• Isaiah 59:14 OT

  Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

• Isaiah 59:15 OT

  Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

• Jeremiah 5:28 OT

  They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

• Jeremiah 5:29 OT

  “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

• Ezekiel 21:25 OT

  “ ‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

• Ezekiel 21:26 OT

  the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.

• Ezekiel 22:6 OT

  “ ‘ “Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.

• Ezekiel 22:27 OT

  Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

• Ezekiel 28:2 OT

  “Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as…

• Ezekiel 34:2-4 OT

  “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat. You…

• Ezekiel 34:7-10 OT

  “ ‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear Yahweh’s word: “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search…

• Ezekiel 45:9 OT

  “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.