16 Bijbelverzen over het uitspreken tegen onrecht

The Bible tells its readers to speak up for people who cannot speak for themselves, and the prophets carried that demand to kings and to whole nations. Proverbs 31:8-9 gives it to a king, and Isaiah 1:17 tells Judah to “plead the case of the widow.” Jeremiah 22:3 takes the demand into the king’s palace, and Isaiah 58:1 tells the prophet, “Raise your voice like a trumpet.” The people named again and again are the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner…