TOPICAL BIBLE
Rulers
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Psalm 72:16There is a handful of corn in the earth, On the top of mountains, Shake like Lebanon doth its fruit, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.Psalm 72:17His name is to the age, Before the sun is his name continued, And they bless themselves in him, All nations do pronounce him happy.Psalm 82:2Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah.Psalm 82:3Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.Psalm 82:4Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.Psalm 94:20Is a throne of mischief joined with Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?Psalm 94:21They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.Psalm 110:5The Lord on thy right hand smote kings In the day of His anger.Psalm 148:11Kings of earth, and all peoples, Chiefs, and all judges of earth,Psalm 148:13They praise the name of Jehovah, For His name alone hath been set on high, His honour is above earth and heavens.Proverbs 16:10An oath is on the lips of a king, In judgment his mouth trespasseth not.Proverbs 16:12An abomination to kings is doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.Proverbs 17:7Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.Proverbs 17:15Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these are an abomination to Jehovah.Proverbs 17:26Also, to fine the righteous is not good, To smite nobles for uprightness.Proverbs 19:12The wrath of a king is a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.Proverbs 20:8A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil,Proverbs 20:26A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.Proverbs 20:28Kindness and truth keep a king, And he hath supported by kindness his throne.Proverbs 21:1Rivulets of waters is the heart of a king in the hand of Jehovah, Wherever He pleaseth He inclineth it.Proverbs 24:23These also are for the wise:—To discern faces in judgment is not good.Proverbs 24:24Whoso is saying to the wicked, ‘Thou art righteous,’ Peoples execrate him—nations abhor him.Proverbs 24:25And to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh a good blessing.Proverbs 24:26Lips he kisseth who is returning straightforward words.Proverbs 25:2The honour of God is to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.Proverbs 25:3The heavens for height, and the earth for depth, And the heart of kings—are unsearchable.Proverbs 25:5Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.Proverbs 28:2By the transgression of a land many are its heads. And by an intelligent man, Who knoweth right—it is prolonged.Proverbs 28:15A growling lion, and a ranging bear, Is the wicked ruler over a poor people.Proverbs 28:16A leader lacking understanding multiplieth oppressions, Whoso is hating dishonest gain prolongeth days.Proverbs 28:28In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!Proverbs 29:2In the multiplying of the righteous the people rejoice, And in the ruling of the wicked the people sigh.Proverbs 29:4A king by judgment establisheth a land, And one receiving gifts throweth it down.Proverbs 29:12A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers are wicked.Proverbs 29:14a king that is judging truly the poor, His throne for ever is established.Proverbs 30:21For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four—it is not able to bear:Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,Proverbs 31:4Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.Proverbs 31:5Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.Proverbs 31:9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!’Ecclesiastes 3:16And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment—there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness—there is the wicked.Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in my heart, ‘The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time is to every matter and for every work there.’Ecclesiastes 4:1And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors is power, and they have no comforter.Ecclesiastes 4:13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who hath not known to be warned any more.Ecclesiastes 4:14For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.Ecclesiastes 5:8If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.Ecclesiastes 8:4Where the word of a king is power is, and who saith to him, ‘What dost thou?’Ecclesiastes 8:9All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.Ecclesiastes 10:5There is an evil I have seen under the sun, As an error that goeth out from the ruler,Ecclesiastes 10:6He hath set the fool in many high places, And the rich in a low place do sit.Ecclesiastes 10:7I have seen servants on horses, And princes walking as servants on the earth.Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.Ecclesiastes 10:17Happy art thou, O land, When thy king is a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.Isaiah 3:12My people—its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people—thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.Isaiah 3:14Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: ‘And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor is in your houses.Isaiah 3:15What—to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.’ An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:Isaiah 5:7Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.Isaiah 5:22Woe to the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.