And Elijah came to all the people and said, How long are you limping over two opinions? If Jehovah is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.
Psalm 82:2 - Modern King James Version How long will you judge unjustly and lift up the faces of the wicked? Selah. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How long will ye judge unjustly, And accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How long will you [magistrates or judges] judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! American Standard Version (1901) How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? [Selah Common English Bible “How long will you judge unjustly by granting favor to the wicked? Selah Catholic Public Domain Version O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God. |
And Elijah came to all the people and said, How long are you limping over two opinions? If Jehovah is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.
And now let the fear of Jehovah be on you. Be careful and act wisely, for there is no iniquity with Jehovah our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor? For all of them are the work of His hands.
How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You will shatter him, all of you; you shall be like a bowing wall and a tottering fence.
And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, So says Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.
It is not good to favor the person of the wicked, nor to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel. Remove violence and spoil, and do judgment and justice. Take away your demands on My people, says the Lord Jehovah.
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. You shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him here to Me.
But from those who seemed to be something (what kind they were then does not matter to me; God does not accept the face of man), for those seeming important conferred nothing to me.
You shall not respect persons in judgment. You shall hear the small as well as the great. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the cause that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.