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God's Prophets Demand Justice
Amos Rails against Injustice

Micah Calls for Justice among Unjust People


No Rest for the Wicked

Psalm 7:9-17  The Message

^9-11 Close the book on Evil, God,
    but publish your mandate for us.
You get us ready for life:
    you probe for our soft spots,
    you knock off our rough edges.
And I’m feeling so fit, so safe:
    made right, kept right.
God in solemn honor does things right,
    but his nerves are sandpapered raw.

^11-13 Nobody gets by with anything.
    God is already in action—
Sword honed on his whetstone,
    bow strung, arrow on the string,
Lethal weapons in hand,
    each arrow a flaming missile.

¹⁴ Look at that guy!
    He had sex with sin,
    he’s pregnant with evil.
Oh, look! He’s having
    the baby—a Lie-Baby!

^15-16 See that man shoveling day after day,
    digging, then concealing, his man-trap
    down that lonely stretch of road?
Go back and look again—you’ll see him in it headfirst,
    legs waving in the breeze.
That’s what happens:
    mischief backfires;
    violence boomerangs.

¹⁷ I’m thanking God, who makes things right.
I’m singing the fame of heaven-high God.

 

For Reflection 

The result of sin is the Lie Baby!  Evil begets evil. Mischief backfires.  Violence boomerangs.  NOBODY GETS AWAY WITH ANYTHING!  God sees to it.  Are you a flaming missile, a lethal arrow, filled with the fire of justice, compassion, and forgiveness? Are you an active angel of God or merely a silent witness? 

Pray

that you will arm yourself with humility.  Pray that you will wear the armor of justice.  Pray that you will carry flaming missiles of truth and lethal arrows of compassion and forgiveness.