Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?

But I am sending ¹  these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready ²  just as I kept telling them.

Lord, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. ¹  However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. ²  Why are wicked people successful? ³  Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives?

So now you and the council ¹  request the commanding officer ²  to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine ³  his case ⁴  by conducting a more thorough inquiry. ⁵  We are ready to kill him ⁶  before he comes near this place.” ⁷ 

Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub where it had rested to the threshold of the temple. ¹  He called to the man dressed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

Tell me! Present the evidence! ¹  Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the Lord? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; ²  there is none but me.

“But ²  as for me, ³  I would seek ⁴  God, ⁵  and to God ⁶  I would set forth my case. ⁷ 

There ¹  an upright person could present his case ²  before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

Rouse yourself, wake up ¹  and vindicate me! ²  My God and Lord, defend my just cause! ³ 

How blessed are the people who experience these things! ¹  How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

The Lord takes his position to judge; he stands up to pass sentence on his people. ¹ 

You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; pronounce judgment on my behalf! ¹ 

When his accusers stood up, they did not charge ¹  him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected. ² 

For indeed, what had been glorious now ¹  has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it. ² 

But they will not go much further, ¹  for their foolishness will be obvious to everyone, just like it was with Jannes and Jambres. ² 

Offer the prescribed sacrifices ¹  and trust in the Lord! ² 

I must endure ¹  the Lord’s anger, for I have sinned against him. But then ²  he will defend my cause, ³  and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will experience firsthand ⁴  his deliverance. ⁵ 

Now listen to me, ¹  I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God, ²  and you bring ³  their disputes ⁴  to God;

The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him ¹  so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.