Ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock.
Injustice pollutes the populace. It damages their faith in the law by forcing them to choose between corrupted order and disorder both of which are brands of chaos, let's call them chaos light and chaos heavy
"When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law—two evils of equal magnitude, between which it would be difficult to choose." ― Frederic Bastiat, The Law
Established injustice creates an impossible choice. It should be Christ or chaos, but instead it is this chaos or that chaos.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Bad men going unpunished produces more bad men and turns otherwise good men into vigilantes if they desire justice or into cuckolds if they put up with injustice.
"You have turned justice into poison." (Amos 6:12, ESV)
Delayed justice is injustice and it poisons the well of the populace. It corrodes public trust and increases instability everywhere.
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