For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them.
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O 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 returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the LORD judge between me and thee.
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
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.
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
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.
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
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.
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.
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.