13 Bible Verses about Grinding People

Why do you crush My people
and grind the faces of the poor?”
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.

Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one left.

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

Though you grind a fool
in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
you will not separate his foolishness from him.

I pulverize them like dust of the earth;
I crush them and trample them like mud in the streets.

I pulverize them like dust before the wind;
I trample them like mud in the streets.

“This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms. It will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it.

“Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, the one different from all the others, extremely terrifying, with iron teeth and bronze claws, devouring, crushing, and trampling with its feet whatever was left.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
for he is determined to follow what is worthless.

Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion,
for I will make your horns iron
and your hooves bronze,
so you can crush many peoples.
Then you will set apart their plunder
to the Lord for destruction,
their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

[Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whoever it falls, it will grind him to powder!]”

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and if it falls on anyone, it will grind him to powder!”

Jehoahaz did not have an army left, except for 50 horsemen, 10 chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them, making them like dust at threshing.