Micah 7:2
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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.
Psalm 12:1
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The Faithful Have Vanished
To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith.[a] A Psalm of David.
12 Save, O Lord, for (A)the godly one is gone;
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
Footnotes
- Psalm 12:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Isaiah 57:1
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Israel's Futile Idolatry
57 The righteous man perishes,
and no one lays it to heart;
(A)devout men are taken away,
while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;
Jeremiah 5:26
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26 For wicked men are found among my people;
(A)they lurk like fowlers lying in wait.[a]
(B)They set a trap;
they catch men.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:26 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Isaiah 59:7
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7 (A)Their feet run to evil,
and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
desolation and destruction are in their highways.
Psalm 14:1-3
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The Fool Says, There Is No God
To the choirmaster. Of David.
14 (A)The (B)fool says in his heart, (C)“There is no God.”
They are (D)corrupt, they do abominable deeds;
(E)there is none who does good.
2 The Lord (F)looks down from heaven on the children of man,
to see if there are any who understand,[a]
who (G)seek after God.
3 They have all turned aside; together they have become (H)corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.
Footnotes
- Psalm 14:2 Or that act wisely
Proverbs 1:11
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11 If they say, “Come with us, (A)let us lie in wait for blood;
(B)let us ambush the innocent without reason;
Jeremiah 16:16
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16 “Behold, (A)I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out (B)of the clefts of the rocks.
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1 Samuel 24:11
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11 See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that (A)there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though (B)you hunt my life to take it.
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Romans 3:10-18
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10 as it is written:
(A)“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 (B)“Their throat is (C)an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
(D)“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 (E)“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 (F)“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and (G)the way of peace they have not known.”
18 (H)“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Habakkuk 1:15-17
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15 (A)He[a] brings all of them up (B)with a hook;
he drags them out with his net;
he gathers them in his dragnet;
so he rejoices and is glad.
16 (C)Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and makes offerings to his dragnet;
for by them he lives in luxury,[b]
and his food is rich.
17 Is he then to keep on emptying his net
(D)and mercilessly killing nations forever?
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:15 That is, the wicked foe
- Habakkuk 1:16 Hebrew his portion is fat
Micah 3:10
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10 (A)who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Lamentations 4:18
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18 (A)They dogged our steps
so that we could not walk in our streets;
(B)our end drew near; our days were numbered,
for our end had come.
Jeremiah 5:16
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Proverbs 12:6
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Psalm 57:6
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6 They set (A)a net for my steps;
my soul was (B)bowed down.
They (C)dug a pit in my way,
but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah
1 Samuel 26:20
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20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek (A)a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
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