Thematic Bible: In politics in the church
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For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
"Indeed they do not know to do right," says the LORD, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
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