Jeremiah 6:7

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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

Proverbs 4:23

Isaiah 57:20

James 3:10

Violence

Bible References

A fountain

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Violence

For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach to me, and a derision, daily.

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Violence hath risen into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.

Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

Woe to them that 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.

And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?

The good man hath perished from the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.