Zechariah 7:9—“Dispense true justice...”

What to Do/Not Do (Zechariah 7:8-10)

1. Dispense true justice (Zechariah 7:9)
2. Lovingkindness (Zechariah 7:9)
3. Compassion (Zechariah 7:9)
4. Do not oppress (external) (Zechariah 7:10)
5. Do not devise evil (internal) (Zechariah 7:10)

The person-to-person attitudes and actions indicate the health of the person-to-God relationship.

What is justice?

Biblical justice is always based in the nature and character of God. In fact, other ethical systems are impossible to define and practice consistently unless they presuppose the Biblical worldview.

Leviticus 19:15—“You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.”

Deuteronomy 1:17—“You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’”

Zechariah 7:10—“and do not oppress the widow or the orphan [Or fatherless], the stranger or the poor;…”

“to press upon, oppress, violate, defraud, do violence, get deceitfully, wrong, extort” (Blue Letter Bible)

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