Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Bible References
General references
Psalm 12:1 Save and help and rescue, Lord, for godly people cease to be,
For the faithful vanish from among the sons of men.
For the faithful vanish from among the sons of men.
Psalm 55:9
Confuse [my enemies], O Lord, divide their tongues [destroying their schemes],
For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Psalm 73:3
For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalm 120:5
Woe to me, for I sojourn in Meshech,
and I live among the tents of Kedar [among hostile people]!
Woe to me, for I sojourn in Meshech,
and I live among the tents of Kedar [among hostile people]!
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I looked again and considered all the acts of oppression that were being practiced under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight [of corruption]; for a higher official watches over another official, and there are higher ones over them [looking out for one another].
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place (a mere shelter) for wayfaring men,
That I might leave my people
And go away from them!
For they are all adulterers [worshiping idols instead of the Lord],
[They are] an assembly of treacherous men [of weak character, men without integrity].
Oh that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place (a mere shelter) for wayfaring men,
That I might leave my people
And go away from them!
For they are all adulterers [worshiping idols instead of the Lord],
[They are] an assembly of treacherous men [of weak character, men without integrity].
Ezekiel 2:6
And you, son of man, neither fear them nor fear their words; though briars and thorns are all around you and you sit among scorpions, neither fear their words nor be dismayed at their presence, for they are a rebellious house.
Micah 7:1 Woe is me (judgment is coming)! For I am
Like one who gathers the summer fruits, like one who gleans the vintage grapes.
There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,
No first-ripe fig which my appetite craves.
Like one who gathers the summer fruits, like one who gleans the vintage grapes.
There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,
No first-ripe fig which my appetite craves.
Matthew 10:16 “Listen carefully: I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise as serpents, and innocent as doves [have no self-serving agenda].
2 Peter 2:8
(for that just man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by what he saw and heard of their lawless acts),