Ezekiel 22:25
Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.
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Ezekiel 22:25
Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.
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Ezekiel 22:24
Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.
Ezekiel 22:25
Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
Ezekiel 22:28
And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.
Ezekiel 22:31
And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.
Micah 3:1
And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
Lamentations 4:13
It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.
Ezekiel 22:6
See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.
2 Kings 21:16
More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:30
I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
Ezekiel 8:17
Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.
Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.
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Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
Micah 3:2
You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;
Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
Micah 3:5
This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.
Micah 3:9
Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.
Micah 3:10
They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.
Micah 3:11
Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.
Jeremiah 23:11
For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.
Hosea 6:9
And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.
Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.
Ezekiel 19:1
Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.
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Luke 20:47
Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.
Mark 12:40
Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.
2 Timothy 3:6
For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,
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1 Peter 5:8
Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;
Psalms 71:10
For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,
Psalms 86:14
O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.
Psalms 109:20
Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.
Jeremiah 18:20
Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.
Luke 22:31
Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:
Ephesians 6:12
For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.
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Ezekiel 13:18
This is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the women who are stitching bands on all arms and putting veils on the heads of those of every size, so that they may go after souls! Will you go after the souls of my people and keep yourselves safe from death?
Jeremiah 2:34
And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
Psalms 94:21
They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
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Jeremiah 11:9
And the Lord said to me, There is an evil design at work among the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 5:30
A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Jeremiah 23:14
And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 23:15
So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.
Jeremiah 23:32
See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.
Matthew 7:15
Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.
Acts 20:29
I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock;
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.
Jeremiah 23:17
They keep on saying to those who have no respect for the word of the Lord, You will have peace; and to everyone who goes on his way in the pride of his heart, they say, No evil will come to you.
Jeremiah 27:10
For they say false words to you, so that you may be sent away far from your land, and so that you may be forced out by me and come to destruction.
Jeremiah 28:1
And it came about in that year, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azzur the prophet, who came from Gibeon, said to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, before the priests and all the people,
Lamentations 2:14
The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.
Ephesians 4:14
So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;
2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.
2 Peter 2:2
And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.
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Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.
Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
Ezekiel 13:19
And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.
Zechariah 11:4
This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;
Zechariah 11:5
Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.
Jeremiah 23:1
A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?
Ezekiel 34:3
You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.
John 10:8
All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.
Acts 5:36
For before this there was Theudas, who said he was someone important, to whom about four hundred men gave their support: he was put to death, and his band was broken up and came to nothing.
2 Peter 2:14
Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
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Ezekiel 13:10
Because, even because they have been guiding my people into error, saying, Peace; when there is no peace; and in the building of a division wall they put whitewash on it:
Ezekiel 13:11
Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.
Ezekiel 13:12
And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?
Ezekiel 13:13
For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.
Ezekiel 13:14
So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:15
So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?
Ezekiel 13:16
Even the prophets of Israel who say words to Jerusalem, who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace, says the Lord.
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Numbers 24:9
He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.
Isaiah 38:13
I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
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2 Samuel 15:12
And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's helpers, from Giloh his town, while he was making the offerings. And the design against David became strong, for more and more people were joined to Absalom.
1 Kings 16:20
Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the secret design he made, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
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Proverbs 15:6
In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.
Proverbs 27:24
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
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Psalms 22:13
I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
Proverbs 28:15
Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.
Ezekiel 19:7
And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.
Hosea 13:8
I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.
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Jeremiah 26:7
And in the hearing of the priests and the prophets and all the people, Jeremiah said these words in the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 26:8
Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate.
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