Réttlæti

á nýju ári verður maður að trúa því að réttlætið nái fram að ganga, annars sekkur maður í þunglyndi og vonleysi.

Sálmarnir 103:6

Drottinn fremur réttlæti og veitir rétt öllum kúguðum.

Orðskviðirnir 11:4-6

Auðæfi stoða ekki á degi reiðinnar, en réttlæti frelsar frá dauða.

Réttlæti hins ráðvanda gjörir veg hans sléttan, en hinn óguðlegi fellur um guðleysi sitt.

Réttlæti hinna hreinskilnu frelsar þá, en hinir svikulu ánetjast í eigin græðgi.

 

Isaiah 1.21-31

Those Who Walk Out on God

Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city
   has become a whore!
She was once all justice,
   everyone living as good neighbors,
And now they're all
   at one another's throats.
Your coins are all counterfeits.
   Your wine is watered down.
Your leaders are turncoats
   who keep company with crooks.
They sell themselves to the highest bidder
   and grab anything not nailed down.
They never stand up for the homeless,
   never stick up for the defenseless.

 This Decree, therefore, of the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies,
   the Strong One of Israel:
"This is it! I'll get my oppressors off my back.
   I'll get back at my enemies.
I'll give you the back of my hand, purge the junk from your life, clean you up.
I'll set honest judges and wise counselors among you
   just like it was back in the beginning.
Then you'll be renamed
   City-That-Treats-People-Right, the True-Blue City."
God's right ways will put Zion right again.
   God's right actions will restore her penitents.
But it's curtains for rebels and God-traitors,
   a dead end for those who walk out on God.
"Your dalliances in those oak grove shrines
   will leave you looking mighty foolish,
All that fooling around in god and goddess gardens
   that you thought was the latest thing.
You'll end up like an oak tree
   with all its leaves falling off,
Like an unwatered garden,
   withered and brown.
'The Big Man' will turn out to be dead bark and twigs,
   and his 'work,' the spark that starts the fire
That exposes man and work both
   as nothing but cinders and smoke."