The king gives stability to the land by justice, But a person who takes bribes ruins it.

王藉公平，使国坚定；索要贿赂，使国倾败。

王藉公平，使国坚定；强索贡物的，使它毁坏。

王藉公平，使国坚定；强索贡物的，使它毁坏。

君王秉公行义，国家安定；他若收受贿赂，国必倾倒。

君王以公正使国坚立；收受贿赂的，使国覆亡。

王藉着公正，使国坚立；但收受贿赂的，使国倾覆。

王藉公平，使國堅定；索要賄賂，使國傾敗。

王藉公平，使國堅定；強索貢物的，使它毀壞。

王藉公平，使國堅定；強索貢物的，使它毀壞。

君王秉公行義，國家安定；他若收受賄賂，國必傾倒。

君王以公正使國堅立；收受賄賂的，使國覆亡。

王以公平使國立定；一個逼索稅貢的、使國翻毁。

王藉著公正，使國堅立；但收受賄賂的，使國傾覆。

王秉公義、使國堅立、索賄者傾覆之、

王秉義、國以立、主受賄、邦必喪。

王秉公義、使國堅立、受賄者受賄者或作增稅者敗之、

By justice a king gives a country stability, but those who are greedy for bribes tear it down.

By doing what is fair, a king makes a country secure. But those who only want money tear it down.

By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.

A just king gives stability to his nation, but one who demands bribes destroys it.

By justice a king brings stability to a land, but a person who demands“ contributions” demolishes it.

The king establishes the land by justice, But he who receives bribes overthrows it.

The king by justice establisheth the land; But he that exacteth gifts overthroweth it.

By justice a king brings stability to a land, but a man who demands“ contributions” demolishes it.

The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

A king brings stability to a land by justice, but one who exacts tribute tears it down.

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

If a king judges the poor with truth, His throne will be established forever.

As for evil, both hands do it well. The leader asks for a bribe, also the judge, And the great one speaks the capricious desire of his soul; So they plot it together.

A king who sits on the throne of justice Disperses all evil with his eyes.

“ Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness, And his upstairs rooms without justice, Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay And does not give him his wages,Who says,‘ I will build myself a large house With spacious upstairs rooms, And cut out its windows, Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did your father not eat and drink And do justice and righteousness? Then it was well for him.He pled the cause of the afflicted and the poor, Then it was well. Is that not what it means to know Me?” Declares the Lord.“ But your eyes and your heart Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, And on shedding innocent blood, And on practicing oppression and extortion.”

This is what the Lord says:“ At a favorable time I answered You, And on a day of salvation I helped You; And I will watch over You and make You a covenant of the people, To restore the land, to give as inheritances the deserted hereditary lands;

But Samuel said to Saul,“ You have acted foolishly! You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, for the Lord would now have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

By me kings reign, And rulers decree justice.

There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of armies will accomplish this.

Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you, setting you on His throne as king for the Lord your God; because your God loved Israel, establishing them forever, He made you king over them, to carry out justice and righteousness.”

The strength of the King loves justice; You have established order; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Then Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established.

It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts, Because a throne is established on righteousness.

So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and righteousness for all his people.

“ Then in his place one will arise who will allow an oppressor to pass through the Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be broken, though not in anger nor in battle.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; for all his days he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel.Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom under his rule.Then Menahem collected the money from Israel, from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before You.