Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
A fountain
Bible References
A fountain
Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.
Violence
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.
Psalm 55:9
Destroy, O LORD, divide their tongue, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Ezekiel 7:11
Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. Neither shall there be eminency among them.
Ezekiel 22:3
And thou shall say, Thus says lord LORD: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and who makes idols against herself to defile her!
Ezekiel 24:7
For her blood is in the midst of her. She set it upon the bare rock. She did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 3:1
And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice?
Micah 7:2
The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.