12 All bribery and injustice will be blotted out. Good faith will stand forever. (WEB)
Sirach 40:12
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2 Esdras 6:26–28
26 They will see the men who have been taken up, who have not tasted death from their birth. The heart of the inhabitants will be changed and turned into a different spirit. (WEB) 27 For evil will be blotted out and deceit will be quenched. (WEB) 28 Faith will flourish. Corruption… (WEB)
Psalms 94:14–16
14 For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage. 15 Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it. 16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?
Book of Enoch 91:7–9
7 And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy And violence in all kinds of deeds increase, And apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase, A great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these, And the holy Lord will come forth with wrath and c… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 10:15–17
15 And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers, because they have wronged mankind. (ENO) 16 Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: ⌈and it… (ENO) 17 … (ENO)
Isaiah 5:22–24
22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing beer, 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice. 24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will deca…
2 Enoch 60:3–4
3 He who puts a man in any vessel, his retribution will not be wanting at the great judgement for all time. (2EN) 4 He who works crookedly or speaks evil against any soul, will not make justice for himself for all time. (2EN)
Job 5:15–17
15 He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful. 16 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth. 17 Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
Job 22:22–24
22 Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents 24 and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
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