14 Bible Verses about Violence In The Earth

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Then he said unto me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumor that shall be heard in the land; a rumor shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Destroy, O Lord, and confuse their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness: violence and plundering are heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.

And say unto the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with dismay, that their land may be emptied from all who are in it, because of the violence of all them that dwell in it.

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!

Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention.

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,