Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
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Jeremiah 5:26
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
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Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
Jeremiah 5:29
“Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Isaiah 33:15
He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Amos 8:5
saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
Amos 8:6
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Micah 6:10
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
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Proverbs 1:11
If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Psalms 10:9
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.
Psalms 10:10
The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:17
For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
Proverbs 1:18
but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 1:19
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.
1 Kings 21:9
She wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
Psalms 35:7
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
Isaiah 32:7
The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
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Jeremiah 5:25
“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Amos 3:10
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
Jeremiah 4:22
“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
Jeremiah 6:7
As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.
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Habakkuk 1:15
He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
Habakkuk 1:17
Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?
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Acts 23:12
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 23:13
There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.
Acts 23:14
They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
Acts 23:15
Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
Acts 25:3
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.
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Psalms 7:14
Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
Psalms 7:15
He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
Psalms 7:16
The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
Exodus 10:7
Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”
1 Samuel 18:21
Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall today be my son-in-law.”
Proverbs 26:24
A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
Proverbs 26:25
When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Proverbs 26:26
His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
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Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Psalms 57:7
My heart is steadfast, God. My heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
Jeremiah 5:1
“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
Matthew 26:15
and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?” So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
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Proverbs 6:5
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Psalms 25:15
My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalms 91:3
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
Psalms 124:7
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Luke 5:10
and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”
2 Timothy 2:26
and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
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Psalms 5:8
Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
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Jeremiah 31:21
“Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities.
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Hosea 13:7
Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
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