Psalms 10:10
The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
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Psalms 10:10
The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
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Exodus 1:10
Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
Psalms 83:3
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
Psalms 83:4
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Isaiah 7:5
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
Isaiah 7:6
“Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”
Isaiah 7:7
This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”
Ezekiel 38:10
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
Ezekiel 38:11
You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
Matthew 2:7
Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.
Revelation 12:1
A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Revelation 12:2
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
Revelation 12:3
Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
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Exodus 21:14
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Numbers 35:20
If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
Deuteronomy 19:11
But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
1 Samuel 18:10
On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;
1 Samuel 18:11
and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.
1 Samuel 19:10
Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.
1 Samuel 20:1
David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”
1 Samuel 24:11
Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
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Joshua 11:7
So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.
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1 Samuel 2:36
It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.” ’ ”
1 Samuel 9:11
As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”
1 Samuel 22:18
The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
1 Samuel 22:19
He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword—both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle, donkeys, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
2 Samuel 21:16
and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought he would kill David.
Proverbs 24:15
Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;
Acts 23:16
But Paul’s sister’s son heard they were lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.
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1 Samuel 12:10
They cried to Yahweh, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’
2 Chronicles 6:37
yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’
Psalms 106:6
We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
Jeremiah 14:7
Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.
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1 Samuel 18:22
Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’ ”
1 Samuel 18:23
Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and little known?”
1 Samuel 18:24
The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”
1 Samuel 18:26
When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,
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2 Samuel 11:14
In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
2 Samuel 11:15
He wrote in the letter, saying, “Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck and die.”
2 Samuel 11:16
When Joab kept watch on the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
2 Samuel 11:17
The men of the city went out and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of David’s servants; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
Job 24:14
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Ephesians 5:7
Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Ephesians 5:10
proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
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2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
2 Samuel 17:2
I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,
2 Samuel 17:3
and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”
2 Samuel 17:4
The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
Psalms 119:61
The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.
Psalms 119:69
The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
Psalms 119:86
All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
Psalms 119:87
They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
Psalms 119:95
The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
Psalms 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
Acts 12:11
When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
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Job 1:15
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
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Job 4:8
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
Job 4:10
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4:11
The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
Proverbs 6:14
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Ezekiel 22:6
“ ‘ “Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
Ezekiel 22:25
There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.
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.
Micah 3:1
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
Micah 3:2
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
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Psalms 25:15
My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalms 31:4
Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.
Psalms 31:5
Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
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1 Samuel 19:1
Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.
1 Samuel 19:11
Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
Psalms 5:6
You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
Psalms 37:12
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
Psalms 37:33
Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
Psalms 59:6
They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
Psalms 64:2
Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
Psalms 64:3
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
Proverbs 1:12
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Proverbs 1:17
For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
Proverbs 12:6
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
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1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Psalms 50:9
I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
Psalms 51:16
For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
Isaiah 1:10
Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
Isaiah 1:11
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
Isaiah 1:14
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 40:16
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
Jeremiah 7:21
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
Psalms 10:4
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
Psalms 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalms 52:3
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
Psalms 52:4
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
Psalms 52:5
God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
Proverbs 26:25
When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
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Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Psalms 82:5
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalms 94:7
They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
Proverbs 6:3
Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.
Proverbs 6:13
who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,
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.
Micah 2:8
But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
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Psalms 92:4
For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
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Psalms 10:1
Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
Psalms 10:16
Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
Psalms 10:17
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
Psalms 10:18
to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
Psalms 124:6
Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Psalms 124:7
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Psalms 141:9
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
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Psalms 139:14
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
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Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
Acts 19:26
You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.
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Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
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Psalms 38:6
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Isaiah 2:11
The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
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Isaiah 25:10
For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.
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Jeremiah 7:22
For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;
Amos 5:22
Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
Micah 6:7
Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the defaming of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”
Daniel 6:4
Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.
Luke 6:7
The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
Luke 11:54
lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
Luke 14:1
When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.
Luke 20:20
They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
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Job 20:19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
Isaiah 3:14
Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Amos 4:1
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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 6:11
Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights?
Micah 6:12
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
Zechariah 7:10
Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?
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.
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Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 5:29
Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
Amos 2:6
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;
Amos 2:7
They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth and deny justice to the oppressed. A man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
Micah 3:9
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity,
Micah 3:10
who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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Habakkuk 1:14
and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
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.
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Job 5:15
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
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.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
Hosea 5:2
The rebels are deep in slaughter, but I discipline all of them.
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;
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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.
Habakkuk 3:14
You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
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Matthew 10:42
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.”
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Luke 19:47
He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
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Luke 19:48
They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.
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Jeremiah 18:19
Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
Jeremiah 18:20
Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
John 15:25
But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
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Psalms 73:10
Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.
Daniel 11:33
“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.
Revelation 12:4
His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
Revelation 12:5
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne.
Revelation 12:15
The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
Revelation 13:15
It was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.
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