Lexicon :: Strong's H5766 - ʿevel

‘You shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor show a preference for the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.

‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight or quantity.

“The Rock! His work is perfect,

For all His ways are just;

A God of faithfulness without iniquity (injustice),

Just and upright is He.

“Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put in fetters;

As a man falls before the wicked, so you have fallen.”

And all the people wept again over him.

“So the helpless have hope,

And injustice shuts its mouth.

“Turn away [from your suspicion], let there be no injustice;

Turn away, my righteousness and vindication is still in it.

If sin is in your hand, put it far away [from you],

And do not let wrongdoing dwell in your tents;

“Will you speak what is unjust for God,

And speak what is deceitful for Him?

How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt,

Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!

“If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up [and restored];

If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

“A mother will forget him;

The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered.

And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].

My lips will not speak unjustly,

Nor will my tongue utter deceit.

“Therefore hear me, you men of understanding.

Far be it from God that He would do wickedness,

And from the Almighty to do wrong.

Teach me what I do not see [in regard to how I have sinned];

If I have done wrong (injustice, unrighteousness),

I will not do it again’?

“Who has appointed God His way,

And who can say [to Him], ‘You have done wrong’?

O LORD my God, if I have done this,

If there is injustice in my hands,

A Psalm of David.

[fn]Do not worry because of evildoers,

Nor be envious toward wrongdoers;

Judge and vindicate me, O God; plead my case against an ungodly nation.

O rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man!

To the Chief Musician; in a mournful strain. A skillful song, or didactic or reflective poem of David.

The [empty-headed] fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”

They are corrupt and evil, and have committed repulsive injustice;

There is no one who does good.

No, in your heart you devise wrongdoing;

On earth you deal out the violence of your hands.

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).

How long will you judge unjustly

And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.

“The enemy will not outwit him,

Nor will the wicked man afflict or humiliate him.

[They are living memorials] to declare that the LORD is upright and faithful [to His promises];

He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

The upright see it and rejoice;

But all unrighteousness shuts its mouth.

They do no unrighteousness;

They walk in His ways.

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land of the righteous,

So that the righteous will not reach out their hands to do wrong.

He who sows injustice will reap [a harvest of] trouble,

And the rod of his wrath [with which he oppresses others] will fail.

An unjust man is repulsive to the righteous,

And he who is upright in the way [of the LORD] is repulsive to the wicked.

For your hands are defiled with blood

And your fingers with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing];

Your lips have spoken lies,

Your tongue mutters wickedness.

“What injustice or unrighteousness did your fathers find in Me,

That they have wandered far from Me

And [habitually] walked after emptiness and futility and became empty?

“But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits sin and acts in accordance with all the repulsive things that the wicked man does, will he live? All of his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered because of the treachery that he has committed and for his sin which he has committed; for them he shall die.

“You were blameless in your ways

From the day you were created

Until unrighteousness and evil were found in you.

“You profaned your sanctuaries

By the great quantity of your sins and the enormity of your guilt,

By the unrighteousness of your trade.

Therefore I have brought forth a fire from your midst;

It has consumed you,

And I have reduced you to ashes on the earth

In the sight of all who look at you.

You have plowed and planted wickedness, you have reaped the [willful] injustice [of oppressors],

You have eaten the fruit of lies.

Because you have trusted in your own way and your chariots, and in your many warriors,

Who build Zion with blood [and extortion and murder]

And Jerusalem with violent injustice.

“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who builds a city with bloodshed

And establishes a town by violence!

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 person knows no shame.

“The remnant of Israel will do no wrong

Nor speak lies,

Nor will a deceitful tongue

Be found in their mouths;

For they will eat and lie down

With no one to make them tremble and feel afraid.”