Psalm 94:5
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5 They crush your people, O Lord,
and afflict your heritage.
Isaiah 3:15
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15 What do you mean by crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.(A)
Revelation 17:6
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6 And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.
When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.(A)
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Revelation 11:3
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3 And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”(A)
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Micah 3:2-3
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2 you who hate the good and love the evil,
who tear the skin off my people[a]
and the flesh off their bones,(A)
3 who eat the flesh of my people,
flay their skin off them,
break their bones in pieces,
and chop them up like meat[b] in a kettle,
like flesh in a caldron.(B)
Jeremiah 51:34
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34 “King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
he has swallowed me like a monster;
he has filled his belly with my delicacies;
he has spewed me out.(A)
Jeremiah 51:20-23
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Israel the Creator’s Instrument
20 You are my war club, my weapon of battle:
with you I smash nations;
with you I destroy kingdoms;(A)
21 with you I smash the horse and its rider;
with you I smash the chariot and the charioteer;
22 with you I smash man and woman;
with you I smash the old man and the boy;
with you I smash the young man and the girl;(B)
23 with you I smash shepherds and their flocks;
with you I smash farmers and their teams;
with you I smash governors and deputies.
Jeremiah 50:11
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11 Though you rejoice, though you exult,
O plunderers of my heritage,
though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass
and neigh like stallions,(A)
Jeremiah 22:17
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17 But your eyes and heart
are only on your dishonest gain,
for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.(A)
Isaiah 52:5
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5 Now therefore what am I doing here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Their rulers howl, says the Lord, and continually, all day long, my name is despised.(A)
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Psalm 129:2-3
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2 often have they attacked me from my youth,
yet they have not prevailed against me.(A)
3 The plowers plowed on my back;
they made their furrows long.
Psalm 79:7
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7 For they have devoured Jacob
and laid waste his habitation.
Psalm 79:2-3
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2 They have given the bodies of your servants
to the birds of the air for food,
the flesh of your faithful to the wild animals of the earth.(A)
3 They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.(B)
Psalm 74:19-20
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19 Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals;
do not forget the life of your poor forever.(A)
20 Have regard for your[a] covenant,
for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.(B)
Footnotes
- 74.20 Gk Syr: Heb the
Psalm 74:8
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8 They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.(A)
Psalm 44:22
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22 Because of you we are being killed all day long
and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.(A)
Psalm 14:4
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4 Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers
who eat up my people as they eat bread
and do not call upon the Lord?(A)
Psalm 7:2
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2 or like a lion they will tear me apart;
they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.(A)
Exodus 2:23-24
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23 After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cry for help rose up to God from their slavery.(A) 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.(B)
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