Psalm 101:8
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8 My daily task will be to ferret out the wicked
and free the city of the Lord from their grip.
Psalm 75:10
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10 For God says, “I will break the strength of the wicked,
but I will increase the power of the godly.”
Jeremiah 21:12
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12 This is what the Lord says to the dynasty of David:
“‘Give justice each morning to the people you judge!
Help those who have been robbed;
rescue them from their oppressors.
Otherwise, my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire
because of all your sins.
Proverbs 16:12
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12 A king detests wrongdoing,
for his rule is built on justice.
Proverbs 20:8
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8 When a king sits in judgment, he weighs all the evidence,
distinguishing the bad from the good.
Psalm 48:8
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8 We had heard of the city’s glory,
but now we have seen it ourselves—
the city of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
It is the city of our God;
he will make it safe forever. Interlude
Revelation 22:14-15
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14 Blessed are those who wash their robes. They will be permitted to enter through the gates of the city and eat the fruit from the tree of life. 15 Outside the city are the dogs—the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idol worshipers, and all who love to live a lie.
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Micah 3:9
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9 Listen to me, you leaders of Israel!
You hate justice and twist all that is right.
Hosea 9:3
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3 You may no longer stay here in the Lord’s land.
Instead, you will return to Egypt,
and in Assyria you will eat food
that is ceremonially unclean.
Proverbs 20:26
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26 A wise king scatters the wicked like wheat,
then runs his threshing wheel over them.
Psalm 48:2
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2 It is high and magnificent;
the whole earth rejoices to see it!
Mount Zion, the holy mountain,[a]
is the city of the great King!
Footnotes
- 48:2 Or Mount Zion, in the far north; Hebrew reads Mount Zion, the heights of Zaphon.
Psalm 46:4
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4 A river brings joy to the city of our God,
the sacred home of the Most High.
Revelation 21:27
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27 Nothing evil[a] will be allowed to enter, nor anyone who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty—but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
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- 21:27 Or ceremonially unclean.
Micah 3:1-4
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Judgment against Israel’s Leaders
3 I said, “Listen, you leaders of Israel!
You are supposed to know right from wrong,
2 but you are the very ones
who hate good and love evil.
You skin my people alive
and tear the flesh from their bones.
3 Yes, you eat my people’s flesh,
strip off their skin,
and break their bones.
You chop them up
like meat for the cooking pot.
4 Then you beg the Lord for help in times of trouble!
Do you really expect him to answer?
After all the evil you have done,
he won’t even look at you!”
Micah 2:8-10
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8 Yet to this very hour
my people rise against me like an enemy!
You steal the shirts right off the backs
of those who trusted you,
making them as ragged as men
returning from battle.
9 You have evicted women from their pleasant homes
and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.
10 Up! Begone!
This is no longer your land and home,
for you have filled it with sin
and ruined it completely.
Psalm 118:10-12
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10 Though hostile nations surrounded me,
I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord.
11 Yes, they surrounded and attacked me,
but I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord.
12 They swarmed around me like bees;
they blazed against me like a crackling fire.
But I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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