51. In the Word righteousness is used with reference to love and judgment to wisdom, so some passages will be quoted to show that these two are the means by which God exercises control in the world.

Jehovah, righteousness and judgment are the foundation of your throne, Psalms 89:14.

Let him who boasts boast of this, that Jehovah executes judgment and righteousness upon the earth, Jeremiah 9:24.

Let Jehovah be exalted, because He has filled Zion ¹ with judgment and righteousness, Isaiah 33:5.

Let judgment flow like water, and righteousness like a mighty torrent, Amos 5:24.

Jehovah, your righteousness is like the mountains of God, your judgments a mighty abyss, Psalms 36:6.

Jehovah will make his ² righteousness shine as the light, and his ³ judgment like noonday, Psalms 37:6.

Jehovah will judge his' people in righteousness and his' suffering ones in judgment, Psalms 72:2.

When I have learnt the judgments of your righteousness, seven times a day I praise you for the judgments of your righteousness, Psalms 119:7, 164.

I will betroth myself to you ⁴ in righteousness and judgment, Hosea 2:19. Zion shall be redeemed in righteousness, and her converts in judgment, Isaiah 1:27.

He shall sit upon the throne of David, and reign over his kingdom, to establish it in judgment and righteousness, Isaiah 9:7.

I will raise up for David a righteous shoot, who shall reign as king and execute judgment and righteousness upon the earth, Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15.

Elsewhere it is said that righteousness and judgment ought to be done: as Isaiah 1:21; 5:16; 58:2; Jeremiah 4:2; 22:3, 13, 15; Ezekiel 18:5; 33:14, 16, 19; Amos 6:12; Micah 7:9; Deuteronomy 33:21; John 16:8, 10-11.

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6179. 'Put now your hand under my thigh' means a sacred bond. This is clear from the meaning of 'putting a hand under the thigh' as a bond established through what is connected with conjugial love, by all one's power, for 'hand' means power, 878, 3091, 4931-4937, 5728, 5544, and 'thigh' what is connected with conjugial love, dealt with in 3021, 4277, 4280, 4575, 5050, 5062. The conjugial relationship in the supreme sense is the union within the Lord of the Divine and the Divine Human. From this it is the union of Divine Good and Divine Truth in heaven, for what goes forth from the Lord is Divine Truth from Divine Good. This is why heaven is heaven and is called a marriage, for the existence there of goodness and truth joined together, which go forth from the Lord, is what makes heaven. Also, since the Lord is the good there, and heaven is the truth from it, the Lord is in the Word called 'the bridegroom', while heaven and also the Church is called 'the bride'. For goodness and truth constitute a marriage, and the existence of the two joined together is meant by the conjugial relationship. From this one may see how sacred it to be bound by what is of a conjugial nature, meant by 'putting a hand under the thigh'. From that marriage, the marriage of goodness and truth, genuine conjugial love comes down, regarding which love and its holiness, see 2727-2759.