Habakkuk 1:3
"Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention."
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- Psalms 55:9
"Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 20:8
"For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily."
Read in chapter → - Micah 7:1
"Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 5:8
"If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 9:2
"Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 120:5
"Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 12:1
"Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 2:6
"And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house."
Read in chapter → - 2 Peter 2:8
"(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)"
Read in chapter → - Matthew 10:16
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."
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