צֶּדֶק

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.

Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.