Job 16:18
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18 “O earth, do not cover my blood,
And (A)let my cry have no resting place!
Ezekiel 24:7
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7 For her blood is in her midst;
She set it on top of a rock;
(A)She did not pour it on the ground,
To cover it with dust.
Isaiah 26:21
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21 For behold, the Lord (A)comes out of His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
The earth will also disclose her [a]blood,
And will no more cover her slain.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 26:21 Or bloodshed
Psalm 66:18-19
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18 (A)If I regard iniquity in my heart,
The Lord will not hear.
19 But certainly God (B)has heard me;
He has attended to the voice of my prayer.
Genesis 4:11
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11 So now (A)you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
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James 4:3-4
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3 (A)You ask and do not receive, (B)because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 [a]Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that (C)friendship with the world is enmity with God? (D)Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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- James 4:4 NU omits Adulterers and
Jeremiah 22:29
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29 (A)O earth, earth, earth,
Hear the word of the Lord!
Isaiah 58:9-10
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9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’
“If you take away the yoke from your midst,
The [a]pointing of the finger, and (A)speaking wickedness,
10 If you extend your soul to the hungry
And satisfy the afflicted soul,
Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
And your [b]darkness shall be as the noonday.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 58:9 Lit. sending out of
- Isaiah 58:10 Or gloom
Isaiah 1:15
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15 (A)When you [a]spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
(B)Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of [b]blood.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:15 Pray
- Isaiah 1:15 bloodshed
Job 27:9
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9 (A)Will God hear his cry
When trouble comes upon him?
Nehemiah 4:5
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5 (A)Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have provoked You to anger before the builders.
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