Indeed, in Hebrew, the word for “judgment,” mishpat (meesh-PAHT), also means “justice.” By judging wrongdoers, a king was establishing justice in the land. Listen to the messianic imagery of Psalm 72: Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son! May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice! (vv. 1–2)
