LXX Concordance for δικαιοσύνης

“I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. Indeed, I crossed over the Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.

They summon the peoples to a mountain;

there they offer acceptable sacrifices.

For they draw from the wealth of the seas

and the hidden treasures of the sand.

if you are pure and upright,

then he will move even now on your behalf

and restore the home where your righteousness dwells.

When you make a decision, it will be carried out,[fn]

and light will shine on your ways.

The wicked are those who rebel against the light.

They do not recognize its ways

or stay on its paths.

Answer me when I call,

God, who vindicates me.[fn]

You freed me from affliction;

be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

Offer sacrifices in righteousness[fn]

and trust in the LORD.

LORD, hear a just cause;

pay attention to my cry;

listen to my prayer —

from lips free of deceit.

He renews my life;

he leads me along the right paths[fn]

for his name's sake.

in your splendor ride triumphantly

in the cause of truth, humility, and justice.

May your right hand show your awe-inspiring acts.

Like your name, God, so your praise

reaches to the ends of the earth;

your right hand is filled with justice.

Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices,

whole burnt offerings;

then bulls will be offered on your altar.

I come because of the mighty acts of the Lord GOD;

I will proclaim your righteousness, yours alone.

Open the gates of righteousness for me;

I will enter through them

and give thanks to the LORD.

I will praise you with an upright heart

when I learn your righteous judgments.

I rise at midnight to thank you

for your righteous judgments.

I have solemnly sworn

to keep your righteous judgments.

My eyes grow weary looking for your salvation

and for your righteous promise.

The entirety of your word is truth,

each of your righteous judgments endures forever.

I praise you seven times a day

for your righteous judgments.

“How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance?

How long will you mockers enjoy mocking

and you fools hate knowledge?

So follow the way of the good,

and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Honor the LORD with your possessions

and with the first produce of your entire harvest;

“All the words from my mouth are righteous;

none of them are deceptive or perverse.

“I walk in the ways of righteousness,

along the paths of justice,

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,

but a cunning person takes lives.

There is life in the path of righteousness,

and in its path there is no death.[fn]

From the fruit of his mouth,

a person will enjoy good things,

but treacherous people have an appetite for violence.

The LORD is far from the wicked,

but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

The LORD has prepared everything for his purpose —

even the wicked for the day of disaster.

Better a little with righteousness

than great income with injustice.

Wicked behavior is detestable to kings,

since a throne is established through righteousness.

The highway of the upright avoids evil;

the one who guards his way protects his life.

Gray hair is a glorious crown;

it is found in the ways of righteousness.

To start a conflict is to release a flood;

stop the dispute before it breaks out.

A wicked person secretly takes a bribe

to subvert the course of justice.

The person who strays from the way of prudence

will come to rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

The one who pursues righteousness and faithful love

will find life, righteousness, and honor.

If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don't be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

“I will restore your judges to what they were at first,

and your advisers to what they were at the start.

Afterward you will be called the Righteous City,

a Faithful Town.”

The result of righteousness will be peace;

the effect of righteousness

will be quiet confidence forever.

The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high;

he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

“I have stirred him up in righteousness,

and will level all roads for him.

He will rebuild my city,

and set my exiles free,

not for a price or a bribe,”

says the LORD of Armies.

“Listen to me, you hardhearted,

far removed from justice:

“Listen to this, house of Jacob —

those who are called by the name Israel

and have descended from[fn] Judah,

who swear by the name of the LORD

and declare the God of Israel,

but not in truth or righteousness.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion;

to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,

festive oil instead of mourning,

and splendid clothes instead of despair.[fn]

And they will be called righteous trees,

planted by the LORD

to glorify him.

I will make known the LORD's faithful love

and the LORD's praiseworthy acts,

because of all the LORD has done for us —

even the many good things

he has done for the house of Israel,

which he did for them based on his compassion

and the abundance of his faithful love.

Woe for the one who builds his palace

through unrighteousness,

his upstairs rooms through injustice,

who makes his neighbor serve without pay

and will not give him his wages,

Whoever found them devoured them.

Their adversaries said, “We're not guilty;

instead, they have sinned against the LORD,

their righteous grazing land,

the hope of their ancestors, the LORD.”

“But when a righteous person turns from his righteousness and acts unjustly, committing the same detestable acts that the wicked do, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. He will die because of the treachery he has engaged in and the sin he has committed.

“When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and acts unjustly, he will die for this. He will die because of the injustice he has committed.

When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will die for it.

Sow righteousness for yourselves

and reap faithful love;

break up your unplowed ground.

It is time to seek the LORD

until he comes and sends righteousness

on you like the rain.

Do horses gallop on the cliffs?

Does anyone plow there with oxen?[fn]

Yet you have turned justice into poison

and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood —

You have wearied the LORD with your words.

Yet you ask, “How have we wearied him? ”

When you say, “Everyone who does what is evil is good in the LORD's sight, and he is delighted with them, or else where is the God of justice? ”

“But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and playfully jump like calves from the stall.[fn]