8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Judgment
• Justice and Mercy

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Kgs 21:13 — And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and
• 2Chr 6:23 — Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteou
• Amos 5:7 — Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
• Amos 5:12 — For 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 6:12 — Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
• Deut 25:1 — If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
• Exod 23:7 — Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
• Isa 5:20 — Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
• Isa 5:23 — Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
• Isa 5:23 — Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
• Isa 55:8 — For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
• Jas 5:6 — Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
• Job 27:5 — God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
• John 7:24 — Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
• Luke 23:24 — And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
• Matt 12:7 — But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
• Mic 3:9 — Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
• Prov 3:32 — For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
• Prov 6:16 — These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
• Prov 6:16 — These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
• Prov 15:8 — The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Prov 17:26 — Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
• Prov 18:5 — It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
• Prov 18:5 — It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
• Prov 24:23 — These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
• Prov 24:24 — He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
• Ps 94:21 — They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.