'Judgments' in the Bible

Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments.

For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the Lord.

You are to perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the Lord your God.

So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the Lord.

But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you

‘You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land.

while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom the Lord had struck down among them. The Lord had also executed judgments on their gods.

“Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

“See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it.

Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might perform them in the land where you are going over to possess it.

But as for you, stand here by Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I give them to possess.’

“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it,

“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’

Therefore, you shall keep the commandment and the statutes and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.

“Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you His covenant and His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers.

and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.

“These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth.

in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.

Remember His wonderful deeds which He has done,His marvels and the judgments from His mouth,

He is the Lord our God;His judgments are in all the earth.

His ways prosper at all times;Your judgments are on high, out of his sight;As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;Your judgments are like a great deep.O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

Let Mount Zion be glad,Let the daughters of Judah rejoiceBecause of Your judgments.

A Psalm of Solomon.Give the king Your judgments, O God,And Your righteousness to the king’s son.

“If his sons forsake My lawAnd do not walk in My judgments,

Zion heard this and was glad,And the daughters of Judah have rejoicedBecause of Your judgments, O Lord.

The Lord performs righteous deedsAnd judgments for all who are oppressed.

Remember His wonders which He has done,His marvels and the judgments uttered by His mouth,

He is the Lord our God;His judgments are in all the earth.

I shall give thanks to You with uprightness of heart,When I learn Your righteous judgments.

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteous,And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

My flesh trembles for fear of You,And I am afraid of Your judgments.

Tsadhe.Righteous are You, O Lord,And upright are Your judgments.

Judgments are prepared for scoffers,And blows for the back of fools.

Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O Lord,We have waited for You eagerly;Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls.

At night my soul longs for You,Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;For when the earth experiences Your judgmentsThe inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

I will pronounce My judgments on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

a wind too strong for this—will come at My command; now I will also pronounce judgments against them.

therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.

So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken.

The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their conduct I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am the Lord.’”

“And I will bring you out of the midst of the city and deliver you into the hands of strangers and execute judgments against you.

For thus says the Lord God, “How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts and plague to cut off man and beast from it!

They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.

They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, but they slew her with the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her.

Thus I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God,“Behold, I am against you, O Sidon,And I will be glorified in your midst.Then they will know that I am the Lord when I execute judgments in her,And I will manifest My holiness in her.

They will live in it securely; and they will build houses, plant vineyards and live securely when I execute judgments upon all who scorn them round about them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.”’”

“I will make Pathros desolate,Set a fire in ZoanAnd execute judgments on Thebes.

“Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt,And they will know that I am the Lord.”’”

Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets;I have slain them by the words of My mouth;And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.

The Lord has taken away His judgments against you,He has cleared away your enemies.The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;You will fear disaster no more.

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.”

because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her.”