12 Gebeden voor een rechtszaak — voor gerechtigheid, niet alleen om te winnen

Twelve short prayers for a court case — before, during and after — written for someone who wants justice rather than simply to win. That distinction is the whole difficulty, and it is worth naming before the prayers. Before the prayers Scripture has a great deal to say about courts and almost none of it is about winning. The law’s concern is that the process be honest: no single-witness convictions (Deuteronomy 19:15), no bribes, no favouring the poor in a…