Jeremiah 6:7
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7 (A)As a well keeps its water fresh,
so she keeps fresh her evil;
(B)violence and destruction are heard within her;
sickness and wounds are ever before me.
Ezekiel 7:23
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23 (A)“Forge a chain![a] (B)For the land is full of bloody crimes (C)and the city is full of violence.
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- Ezekiel 7:23 Probably refers to an instrument of captivity
Ezekiel 7:11
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11 (A)Violence has grown up into (B)a rod of wickedness. (C)None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.[a]
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- Ezekiel 7:11 The meaning of this last Hebrew sentence is uncertain
Jeremiah 20:8
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8 For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I shout, (A)“Violence and destruction!”
For (B)the word of the Lord has become for me
(C)a reproach and (D)derision all day long.
James 3:10-12
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10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers,[a] these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
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- James 3:10 Or brothers and sisters; also verse 12
Isaiah 57:20
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20 (A)But the wicked are like the tossing sea;
for it cannot be quiet,
and its waters toss up mire and dirt.
Micah 7:2-3
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2 (A)The godly has perished from the earth,
and (B)there is no one upright among mankind;
(C)they all lie in wait for blood,
and (D)each hunts the other with a net.
3 (E)Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;
(F)the prince and (G)the judge ask for a bribe,
and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
thus they weave it together.
Micah 3:9-12
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9 (A)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
(B)who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
10 (C)who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 (D)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
(E)its priests teach for a price;
(F)its prophets practice divination for money;
(G)yet they lean on the Lord and (H)say,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
(I)No disaster shall come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
(J)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (K)shall become a heap of ruins,
and (L)the mountain of the house (M)a wooded height.
Micah 3:1-3
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Rulers and Prophets Denounced
3 And I said:
(A)Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?—
2 you (C)who hate the good and love the evil,
(D)who tear the skin from off my people[a]
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 (E)who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
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- Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them
Micah 2:8-10
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8 But lately (A)my people have risen up as an enemy;
you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
with no thought of war.[a]
9 The women of my people you drive out
from their delightful houses;
from their young children you take away
my splendor forever.
10 (B)Arise and go,
for this is no (C)place to rest,
because of (D)uncleanness that destroys
with a grievous destruction.
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- Micah 2:8 Or returning from war
Micah 2:1-2
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Woe to the Oppressors
2 (A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and (C)seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
Ezekiel 24:7
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7 For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on (A)the bare rock; (B)she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.
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Ezekiel 22:3-12
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3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that (A)her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4 You have become guilty (B)by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought (C)your days near, the appointed time of[a] your years has come. (D)Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; (E)your name is defiled; (F)you are full of tumult.
6 “Behold, (G)the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother (H)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner (I)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow (J)are wronged in you. 8 (K)You have despised my holy things and (L)profaned my Sabbaths. 9 (M)There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you (N)who eat on the mountains; (O)they commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you (P)men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 (Q)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; (R)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; (S)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter. 12 In you (T)they take bribes to shed blood; (U)you take interest and profit[b] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but (V)me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 22:4 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts until
- Ezekiel 22:12 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)
Proverbs 4:23
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Psalm 55:9-11
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9 Destroy, O Lord, (A)divide their tongues;
for I see (B)violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go around it
on its walls,
and (C)iniquity and trouble are within it;
11 ruin is in its midst;
(D)oppression and fraud
do not depart from its marketplace.
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