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 thine heart with all diligence, for thereupon hangeth life.
Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the raging sea, that cannot rest; whose water foameth with the mire and gravel.
James 3:10
Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
Violence
Jeremiah 20:8
because I have now preached long against malicious Tyranny, and showed them of destruction. For the which cause they cast the word of the LORD in my teeth, and take me ever to the worst.
Psalm 55:9
Destroy their tongues, O LORD, and divide them; for I see unrighteousness and strife in the city.
Ezekiel 7:11
malicious violence is grown up, and the ungodly waxen to a staff. None of them shall remain over, none of their riches, not one of their seed: and no lamentation shall be made for them.
Ezekiel 22:3
and tell them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: O thou city, that sheddest blood in the midst of thee, that thy time may come also: and makest thee Idols to defile thee withal.
Ezekiel 24:7
for the blood is yet in it. Upon a plain dry stone hath she poured it, and not upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.
Micah 2:1
Woe unto them that imagine to do harm, and devise ungraciousness upon their beds, to perform it in the clear day: for their power is against God.
Micah 3:1
Hear, O ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye leaders of the house of Israel: Should not ye know, what were lawful and right?
Micah 7:2
There is not a godly man upon earth, there is not one righteous among men. They labour all to shed blood, and every man hunteth his brother to death: