Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
“And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
They will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs.
Moreover, the LORD said to me, “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.
But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
I, the LORD, have spoken; it is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry; according to your ways and according to your deeds I will judge you,” declares the Lord GOD.’”
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
“As for you, My flock, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats.
Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them, “Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
therefore, I will deliver My flock, and they will no longer be a prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.
therefore as I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
Also I scattered them among the nations and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.
In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts and sanctify My sabbaths.
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent word to assemble the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
Then the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
Where now is your king That he may save you in all your cities, And your judges of whom you requested, “Give me a king and princes”?
Let the nations be aroused And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, For there I will sit to judge All the surrounding nations.
“I will also cut off the judge from her midst And slay all her princes with him,” says the LORD.
The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion To judge the mountain of Esau, And the kingdom will be the LORD’S.
And He will judge between many peoples And render decisions for mighty, distant nations. Then they will hammer their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they train for war.
“Now muster yourselves in troops, daughter of troops; They have laid siege against us; With a rod they will smite the judge of Israel on the cheek.
Concerning evil, both hands do it well. The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe, And a great man speaks the desire of his soul; So they weave it together.
Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. You, O LORD, have appointed them to judge; And You, O Rock, have established them to correct.
Her princes within her are roaring lions, Her judges are wolves at evening; They leave nothing for the morning.
These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates.
Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
“Do not judge so that you will not be judged.
For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.
If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.
And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned.
Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one whom he forgave more.” And He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”
And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? So they will be your judges.
But He said to him, “Man, who appointed Me a judge or arbitrator over you?”
“And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?
For while you are going with your opponent to appear before the magistrate, on your way there make an effort to settle with him, so that he may not drag you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man.
And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge said;
He said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,
“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”
You judge according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone.
But even if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me.
I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world.”
But I do not seek My glory; there is One who seeks and judges.
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