JUSTICE

Justice you high and mighty politicians don’t even know the meaning of the word!  Fairness?  Which of you has any left?  Not one? All your dealings are crooked: You give “Justice“ in exchange for bribes.  These men are born sinners, lying from their earliest words!  They are poisonous as deadly snakes, cobras that close their ears to the most expert of charmers.

O God, break off their fangs.  Tear out the teeth of these young lions, Lord.  Let them disappear like water into thirsty ground.  Make their weapons useless in their hands.  Let them be as snails that dissolve into slime; and as those who die at birth, who never see the sun.  God will sweep away both old and young.  He will destroy them more quickly than a cooking pot can feel the blazing fire of thorns beneath it.

The godly shall rejoice in the triumph of right; they shall walk the bloodstained fields of slaughtered, wicked men.  Then at last everyone will know that good is rewarded, and that there is a God who judges justly here on earth. Psalms

Can horses run on rocks?  Can oxen plow the sea?  Stupid even to ask, but no more stupid than what you do when you make a mockery of justice, and corrupt and sour all that should be good and right.  And just as stupid is your rejoicing in how great you are, when you are less than nothing!  And priding yourselves on your own power! Amos

Woe is me!  It is as hard to find an honest man as grapes and figs when harvest days are over.  Not a cluster to eat, not a single early fig, however much I long for it!  The good men have disappeared from the earth; not one fair-minded man is left.  They are all murderers, turning against even their own brothers.

They go at their deeds with both hands, and how skilled they are in using them!  The governor and judge alike demand bribes.  The rich man pays them off and tells them whom to ruin.  Justice is twisted between them.  Even the best of them are prickly as briars; the straightest is more crooked than a hedge of thorns.  But your Judgment Day is coming swiftly now; your time of punishment is almost here; confusion, destruction, and terror will be yours. Micah