14 Bible Verses about Violence In The Earth

Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

"Forge a chain!For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.

Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.

And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink water in dismay. In this way her land will be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who dwell in it.

"Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save?

Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,