Habakkuk 1:3
Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.
Psalm 55:9-11
Destroy, O LORD, divide their tongue, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Psalm 12:1-2
Help, LORD, for the holy man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.
Psalm 73:3-9
For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalm 120:5-6
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For [a man] higher than the high is observing, and there are higher [men] than they.
Jeremiah 20:8
For as often as I speak, I cry out. I cry, Violence and destruction! Because the word of LORD is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.
Ezekiel 2:6
And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dwell among scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebe
Micah 7:1-4
Woe is me! For I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desires the first ripe fig.
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Become ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves.
2 Peter 2:8
(for that righteous man dwelling among them day after day, in the sight and hearing of their lawless deeds, it anguished his righteous soul),