חָמָס

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.

Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

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

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

If a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,

…in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.

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.

…who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.

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.

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

…who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.

Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.

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

Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.

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.

Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

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.

A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.