Violence

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.

And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”

…yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.

Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,

Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.

May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence.

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

…for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.

Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.

No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year—and then another the next year—of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.

Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.

Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’

Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?

Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.

All of them come bent on violence; their hordes advance like the east wind; they gather prisoners like sand.

Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

“For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.

From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the violent lay claim to it.

When Paul reached the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob.

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.