When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.


Most similar verses

Location Verse
Deuteronomy 23 9 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
Deuteronomy 28 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Deuteronomy 32 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
Joshua 23 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
Judges 2 18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
1 Samuel 8 9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
1 Samuel 12 25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
1 Samuel 24 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
2 Samuel 22 28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
Ezra 9 7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Nehemiah 9 33 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
Job 3 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Job 4 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 5 17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job 8 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Job 12 19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
Job 18 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Job 20 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Job 21 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Job 21 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Job 22 19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Job 24 21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job 27 7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Job 35 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Job 35 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job 36 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
Job 38 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
Job 39 3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
Job 40 12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Psalms 1 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Psalms 2 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Psalms 7 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
Psalms 7 11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
Psalms 9 19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
Psalms 10 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 10 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
Psalms 10 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 10 16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
Psalms 11 7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
Psalms 12 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Psalms 12 8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Psalms 17 9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
Psalms 18 27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Psalms 21 1 The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
Psalms 22 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
Psalms 25 9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
Psalms 28 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Psalms 30 5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Psalms 32 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Psalms 33 1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.