Leadership Verses
Servant leadership as modeled by Christ — wisdom for those called to lead.
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry {with the wicked} every day. {judgeth...: or, is a righteous judge}
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; {All...: Heb. Flocks and oxen all of them}
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. {are...: Heb. hide themselves}
The LORD {is} King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. {oppress: or, terrify}
[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? {chief...: or, overseer}
They are all gone aside, they are {all} together become filthy: {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one. {filthy: Heb. stinking}
Like as a lion {that} is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. {Like...: Heb. The likeness of him (that is, of every one of them) is as a lion that desireth to ravin} {lurking: Heb. sitting}
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, {which is} thy sword: {disappoint...: Heb. prevent his face} {which is: or, by}
[To the chief Musician, {A Psalm} of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day {that} the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,] I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.