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Yahweh Sabaoth, whose judgement is upright, tester of motives and thoughts, I shall see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you. (Jeremiah 11, 20)
Yahweh Sabaoth, you who test the upright, observer of motives and thoughts, I shall see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you. (Jeremiah 20, 12)
Are you more of a king because of your passion for cedar? Did your father go hungry or thirsty? But he did what is just and upright, so all went well for him. (Jeremiah 22, 15)
Look, the days are coming, Yahweh declares, when I shall raise an upright Branch for David; he will reign as king and be wise, doing what is just and upright in the country. (Jeremiah 23, 5)
In those days and at that time, I shall make an upright Branch grow for David, who will do what is just and upright in the country. (Jeremiah 33, 15)
Owing to the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, who had shed the blood of the upright, in the heart of the city, (Lamentations 4, 13)
so the Lord has been alert to our misdeeds and has brought disaster down on us, since the Lord is upright in everything he had commanded us to do, (Baruch 2, 9)
Better, then, someone upright who has no idols; dishonour will never come near him.' (Baruch 6, 72)
When someone upright renounces uprightness to do evil and I set a trap for him, it is he who will die; since you failed to warn him, he will die for his guilt, and the uprightness he practised will no longer be remembered; but I shall hold you responsible for his death. (Ezekiel 3, 20)
If, however, you warn someone upright not to sin and this person does not sin, such a one will live, thanks to your warning, and you too will have saved your life.' (Ezekiel 3, 21)
"For having intimidated with lies the heart of the upright whom I had done nothing to alarm, and for having encouraged the wicked not to give up wicked ways and so be saved, (Ezekiel 13, 22)
and now you bear the shame of which you have freed your sisters; since the sins which you have committed are more revolting than theirs, they are more upright than you are. So now, bear the disgrace and shame of having put your sisters in the right. (Ezekiel 16, 52)