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
Above all else, guard thy heart; for out of it flows the issues of life.
Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the sea in tempest, that cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
James 3:10
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.
Violence
Jeremiah 20:8
For since I spoke out, I raised my voice crying, Violence and destruction; because the word of the LORD has been a reproach unto me and a derision, daily.
Psalm 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Ezekiel 7:11
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; nothing shall remain of them, nor of their riches, nor of anything of theirs; neither shall there be lamentation for them.
Ezekiel 22:3
Then thou shalt say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said, City that sheds blood in the midst of thyself, that thy time may come, and that has made idols against thyself to defile thyself!
Ezekiel 24:7
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she did not poured it upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
Micah 2:1
Woe unto those that devise iniquity and fabricate evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they put it into effect because they have power in their hands.
Micah 3:1
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O princes of Jacob, and ye heads of the house of Israel. Did it not pertain to you to know that which is right?
Micah 7:2
The merciful man of the earth is missing: and there is no one upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt each man his brother with a net.