And you, Ezra, in accordance with the wisdom of your God, which you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach any who do not know them.

Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?

He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.

“Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?

He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.

Then people will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”

It is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another.

If a king judges the poor with fairness, his throne will be established forever.

He does not lend to them at interest or take a profit from them. He withholds his hand from doing wrong and judges fairly between two parties.

But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood, because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.

“‘In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed festivals, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.

He then summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the image he had set up.

So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials assembled for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.