When God Goes To Court

[13] The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. [14] The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. [15] What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

• Strife

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

• Waiting

And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

• Lying
• Character

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

• Priest

And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

• Priest

And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,