By justice a king gives a country stability.
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice; upright men will see his face.
When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.
The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked in wrath.
And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
After desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
When a man walks in integrity and justice, happy are his children after him.
