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Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

A noise will come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations. He will enter into judgment with all flesh. As for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,” ’ says Yahweh.”

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.

“ ‘ “In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.

Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.