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
To the Overseer, on the octave. -- A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men:
Psalm 55:9
Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.
Psalm 73:3
The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
Psalm 120:5
Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors is power, and they have no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.
Jeremiah 9:2
Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
Ezekiel 2:6
And thou, son of man, thou art not afraid of them, yea, of their words thou art not afraid, for briers and thorns are with thee, and near scorpions thou art dwelling, of their words thou art not afraid, and of their faces thou art not affrighted, for they are a rebellious house,
Micah 7:1
My woe is to me, for I have been As gatherings of summer-fruit, As gleanings of harvest, There is no cluster to eat, The first-ripe fruit desired hath my soul.
Matthew 10:16
'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.
2 Peter 2:8
for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.