Psalms 17:2
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May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right.
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He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
the LORD will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.
Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”