10 (A)An oracle is on the lips of a king;
    his mouth does not sin in judgment.

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They utter (A)mere words;
    with empty[a] oaths they make covenants;
so (B)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
    (C)in the furrows of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:4 Or vain (see Exodus 20:7)

(A)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous (B)Branch, and (C)he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and (D)Israel will (E)dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: (F)‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

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A King Will Reign in Righteousness

32 Behold, (A)a king will reign in righteousness,
    and princes will rule in justice.
(B)Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
    a shelter from the storm,
(C)like streams of water in a dry place,
    like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

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15 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me (A)can indeed practice divination?”

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Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and (A)by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.’”

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O (A)you who turn justice to wormwood[a]
    and cast down righteousness to the earth!

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  1. Amos 5:7 Or to bitter fruit

12 It is an abomination to kings to do evil,
    for (A)the throne is established by righteousness.
13 (B)Righteous lips are the delight of a king,
    and he loves him who speaks what is right.

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(A)The King in his might (B)loves justice.[a]
    You have established equity;
you have executed justice
    and righteousness in Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 99:4 Or The might of the King loves justice

Give the King Your Justice

Of (A)Solomon.

72 Give the king your (B)justice, O God,
    and your righteousness to the royal son!
May he (C)judge your people with righteousness,
    and your poor with justice!
Let the mountains bear (D)prosperity for the people,
    and the hills, in righteousness!
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
    give deliverance to the children of the needy,
    and crush the oppressor!

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(A)Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
    The (B)scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
    (C)you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.
Therefore (D)God, your God, has (E)anointed you
    with the oil of (F)gladness (G)beyond your companions;

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28 And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that (A)the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

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The God of Israel has spoken;
    (A)the Rock of Israel has said to me:
When one rules justly over men,
    ruling (B)in the fear of God,
he (C)dawns on them like the morning light,
    like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning,
    like rain[a] that makes grass to sprout from the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 23:4 Hebrew from rain

18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, (A)he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, (B)approved by[a] the Levitical priests. 19 And (C)it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, (D)that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he (E)may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, (F)so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.

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  1. Deuteronomy 17:18 Hebrew from before

12 Do horses run on rocks?
    Does one plow there[a] with oxen?
(A)But you have turned justice into (B)poison
    (C)and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:12 Or the sea
  2. Amos 6:12 Or into bitter fruit

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