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Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore δwrong judgment proceedeth.

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the law.

Psa. 11:3• ³For the foundations are broken down.{HR}What hath the righteous [man] done? (Psa. 11:3)

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Psa. 119:126• ¹²⁶[It is] time for Jehovah to act:{HR}They make void thy law. (Psa. 119:126)

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Mark 7:9• ⁹And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe your own tradition. (Mark 7:9)

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Rom. 3:31• ³¹Do we then make void law through faith? Let it not be: nay, we establish law. (Rom. 3:31)

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1 Kings 21:13• ¹³And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. (1 Kings 21:13)

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Job 21:7• ⁷Why do the wicked live, become old,{HR}And mighty in wealth? (Job 21:7)

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Psa. 22:16• ¹⁶For dogs have surrounded me,{HR}The congregation of evil-doers have encompassed me,{HR}Piercing my hands and my feet. (Psa. 22:16)

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Psa. 58:1‑2• ¹To the chief musician, Al-tascheth , of David, Michtam .{HR}Silence indeed! do ye speak righteousness?{HR}Do ye judge equitably, sons of men?
²Yea, in heart ye work iniquities;{HR}In the earth ye weigh the violence of your hands. (Psa. 58:1‑2)

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Psa. 59:2,4• ²Deliver me from doers of iniquity,{HR}And save me from men of blood.
⁴Without [my] iniquity they run and set themselves:{HR}Awake to meet me and see. (Psa. 59:2,4)

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Psa. 82:1‑5• ¹A psalm of Asaph.{HR}God standeth in the assembly of God ;{HR}He judgeth among the gods .
²How long will ye judge unjustly{HR}And respect the person of the wicked? Selah.
³Judge the poor (man) and fatherless;{HR}Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
⁴Rescue the poor and the needy,{HR}Deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
⁵They know not nor do they understand;{HR}They walk on in darkness:{HR}All the foundations of the earth are moved. (Psa. 82:1‑5)

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Psa. 94:3,20‑21• ³Jehovah, how long shall the wicked,{HR}How long shall the wicked triumph?
²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,{HR}Which frameth mischief by statute?
²¹They gather themselves against the soul of the righteous,{HR}And condemn the innocent blood. (Psa. 94:3,20‑21)

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Isa. 1:21‑23• ²¹How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of judgment, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
²²Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.
²³Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. (Isa. 1:21‑23)

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Isa. 59:2‑8,13‑15• ²but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he doth not hear.
³For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips are speaking lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
⁴None sueth in righteousness, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
⁵They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
⁶Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.
⁷Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction [are] in their paths.
⁸The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein knoweth not peace.
¹³in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
¹⁴And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
¹⁵And truth is lacking; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. (Isa. 59:2‑8,13‑15)

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Jer. 5:27‑29• ²⁷As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.
²⁸They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge.
²⁹Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? (Jer. 5:27‑29)

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Jer. 12:1,6• ¹Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
⁶For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee. (Jer. 12:1,6)

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Jer. 26:8,21‑23• ⁸Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
²¹and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
²²and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
²³And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. (Jer. 26:8,21‑23)

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Jer. 37:14‑16• ¹⁴Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
¹⁵Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
¹⁶When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; (Jer. 37:14‑16)

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Jer. 38:4‑6• ⁴Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
⁵Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do anything against you.
⁶Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. (Jer. 38:4‑6)

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Ezek. 22:25‑30• ²⁵There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
²⁶Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
²⁷Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
²⁸And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken.
²⁹The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
³⁰And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none. (Ezek. 22:25‑30)

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Hos. 10:4• ⁴They have spoken [mere] words, swearing falsely, making a covenant, and judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. (Hos. 10:4)

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Amos 5:7,12• ⁷Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth.
¹²For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. (Amos 5:7,12)

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Mic. 2:1‑2• ¹Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
²And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. (Mic. 2:1‑2)

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Mic. 3:1‑3• ¹And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
²Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
³and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron. (Mic. 3:1‑3)

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Mic. 7:2‑4• ²The good man is perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.
³Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it.
⁴The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, worse than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity. (Mic. 7:2‑4)

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Matt. 23:34‑36• ³⁴Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
³⁵so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
³⁶Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. (Matt. 23:34‑36)

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Matt. 26:59‑66• ⁵⁹And the chief priests and the elders and the whole Sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.
⁶⁰And they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. But at the last two false witnesses came forward
⁶¹and said, He said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and in three days build it.
⁶²And the high priest standing up said to him, Answerest thou nothing? What do these witness against thee?
⁶³But Jesus was silent. And the high priest answering said to him, I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us if thou art the Christ the Son of God.
⁶⁴Jesus says to him, Thou hast said. Moreover, I say to you, From henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
⁶⁵Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has blasphemed: what need have we any more of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard the blasphemy.
⁶⁶What think ye? And they answering said, He is liable to the penalty of death. (Matt. 26:59‑66)

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Matt. 27:1‑2,25‑26• ¹And when it was morning all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so that they might put him to death.
²And having bound him they led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
²⁵And all the people answering said, His blood [be] on us and on our children.
²⁶Then he released to them Barabbas; but Jesus, having scourged [him], he delivered up that he might be crucified. (Matt. 27:1‑2,25‑26)

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Acts 7:52,59• ⁵²Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those that announced beforehand of the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye became betrayers and murderers,
⁵⁹and stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. (Acts 7:52,59)

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Acts 23:12‑14• ¹²And when it was day the Jews, having made a combination, put themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
¹³And those that made the conspiracy were more than forty,
¹⁴who therefore came to the high priests and the elders, and said, We have put ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. (Acts 23:12‑14)

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James 2:6‑7• ⁶But ye dishonoured the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and they drag you before tribunals?
⁷Do not they blaspheme the worthy name that was called on you? (James 2:6‑7)

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Ex. 23:2,6• ²Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert judgment.
⁶Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause. (Ex. 23:2,6)

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Deut. 16:19• ¹⁹Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. (Deut. 16:19)

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Ezek. 9:9• ⁹Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not. (Ezek. 9:9)

• He sees that there is no power amongst the people of God to deal with the evil. They fail to use the Word of God, for he has to admit that "the law is powerless, and justice doth never go forth." The wicked are in ascendancy, therefore any judgments at which they arrive are wrong or perverted. (“The Card on the Pavement”)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Therefore the law is powerless, and justiceb doth never go forth; for the wicked encompasseth the righteous; therefore judgment goeth forth perverted.

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Or "judgment."

W. Kelly Translation

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Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.