Psalm 94:5
They crush Your people, O Lord,
And afflict and abuse Your heritage.
Isaiah 3:15
“What do you mean by crushing My people
And grinding the face of the poor?”
Declares the Lord God of hosts.
Exodus 2:23-24
Now it happened after a long time [about forty years] that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel (Jacob) groaned and sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out. And their cry for help because of their bondage
Psalm 7:2
So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion,
Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me].
Psalm 14:4
Have all the workers of wickedness and injustice no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?
Psalm 44:22
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Psalm 74:8
They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
Psalm 74:19-20
Oh, do not hand over the soul of your turtledove to the wild beast;
Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
Psalm 79:2-3
They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food to the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.
Psalm 79:7
For they have devoured Jacob
And made his pasture desolate.
Psalm 129:2-3
“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth,
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
Isaiah 52:5
But now, what do I have here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that My people have been taken away without reason? Those who rule over them howl [with taunting and mockery of salvation],” declares the Lord, “and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.
Jeremiah 22:17
“But your eyes and your heart
Are only intent on your own dishonest gain,
On shedding innocent blood,
On oppression and extortion and violence.”
Jeremiah 50:11
“Though you are glad, though you rejoice,
O you who plunder My heritage,
Though you are wanton and skip about like a heifer in the grass
And neigh like stallions,
Jeremiah 51:20-23
“You [Cyrus of Persia, soon to conquer Babylon] are My battle-axe and weapon of war—
For with you I shatter nations,
With you I destroy kingdoms.
Jeremiah 51:34
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured
He has set me down like an empty vessel.
Like a monster he has swallowed me up,
He has filled his belly with my delicacies;
He has spit me out and washed me away.
Micah 3:2-3
“You who hate good and love evil,
Who tear the skin off my people
And their flesh from their bones;
Revelation 11:3
And I will grant authority to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days (forty-two months; three and one-half years), dressed in
Revelation 17:6
I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints (God’s people), and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus [who were martyred]. When I saw her, I wondered in amazement.
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Afflict
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Afflict
“Though you are glad, though you rejoice,
O you who plunder My heritage,
Though you are wanton and skip about like a heifer in the grass
And neigh like stallions,