רֶ֫שַׁע

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.

As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.

He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.

Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.

Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

Wicked behavior is detestable for kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.

Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.

Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.

Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?