Psalms 44:22
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
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Psalms 44:22
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
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Exodus 17:16
He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’ ”
Esther 3:6
But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
Esther 3:13
Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
Esther 8:11
In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together and to defend their lives—to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,
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Deuteronomy 6:12
then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy 8:11
Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;
Deuteronomy 8:14
then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
Deuteronomy 8:19
It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy 32:18
Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 106:21
They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
Isaiah 17:10
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
Isaiah 22:10
You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
Isaiah 22:11
You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planned it long ago.
Jeremiah 2:32
“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
Jeremiah 3:21
A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
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1 Samuel 21:1
Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”
1 Samuel 21:2
David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’
1 Samuel 21:3
Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”
1 Samuel 21:4
The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”
1 Samuel 21:5
David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”
1 Samuel 21:6
So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
1 Samuel 21:7
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
1 Samuel 21:8
David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I haven’t brought my sword or my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
1 Samuel 21:9
The priest said, “Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it, for there is no other except that here.” David said, “There is none like that. Give it to me.”
1 Samuel 22:22
David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house.
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1 Samuel 22:17
The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
Psalms 69:7
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
Isaiah 25:8
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
Jeremiah 15:15
Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 19:29
Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
Mark 4:17
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
John 16:3
They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me.
1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
Hebrews 11:36
Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
1 Peter 4:16
But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
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1 Samuel 23:10
Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake.
2 Samuel 20:20
Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
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2 Samuel 14:15
Now therefore, seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid. Your servant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.’
2 Samuel 14:17
Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”
Job 4:7
“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Job 8:20
“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
Job 9:23
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Ezekiel 14:19
“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal—
Ezekiel 14:20
though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
Ezekiel 14:21
For the Lord Yahweh says: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword, the famine, the evil animals, and the pestilence—to cut off from it man and animal!
Ezekiel 21:10
It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Should we then make mirth? The rod of my son condemns every tree.
Ezekiel 21:13
“For there is a trial. What if even the rod that condemns will be no more?” says the Lord Yahweh.
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1 Kings 19:10
He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Revelation 11:3
I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 11:4
These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.
Revelation 11:5
If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
Revelation 11:6
These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
Revelation 11:7
When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
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2 Kings 16:7
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”
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2 Kings 18:7
Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.
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Psalms 10:1
Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
Isaiah 51:10
Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
Matthew 8:25
The disciples came to him and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”
Mark 4:38
He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and asked him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”
Mark 4:39
He awoke and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was a great calm.
Luke 8:24
They came to him and awoke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are dying!” He awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water; then they ceased, and it was calm.
1 Peter 5:7
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
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Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
Psalms 22:7
All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
Psalms 22:8
“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
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1 Chronicles 28:9
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Psalms 44:1
We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
Psalms 44:15
All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
Psalms 44:16
at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 56:5
All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Psalms 60:1
God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
Psalms 60:10
Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.
Psalms 77:7
“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
Psalms 79:11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
Hosea 9:17
My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
Zephaniah 2:8
I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border.
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2 Samuel 24:17
David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”
1 Chronicles 21:17
David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
Psalms 74:1
God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 78:52
But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 79:13
So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
Psalms 95:7
for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
Psalms 100:3
Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Jeremiah 23:1
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 50:6
My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.
Micah 2:12
I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture. They will swarm with people.
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Psalms 7:2
lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
Psalms 74:8
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
Psalms 74:19
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
Psalms 74:20
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
Psalms 79:7
for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
Psalms 94:5
They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
Jeremiah 51:21
With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider.
Jeremiah 51:22
With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin.
Jeremiah 51:34
“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
Micah 3:2
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
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.
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Psalms 129:2
many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
Psalms 129:3
The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
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 52:5
“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
Jeremiah 51:20
“You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.
Jeremiah 51:23
With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you I will break in pieces governors and deputies.
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Psalms 139:1
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
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Psalms 139:2
You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
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Psalms 37:20
But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish— vanish like smoke.
Psalms 49:14
They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
Isaiah 34:6
Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
Jeremiah 50:27
Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
Jeremiah 51:40
“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Ezekiel 39:18
You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
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Psalms 38:17
For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
Psalms 85:2
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
Psalms 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Jeremiah 31:34
They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Ezekiel 18:22
None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.
Ezekiel 33:16
None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Micah 7:19
He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
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Isaiah 43:3
For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”
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Zechariah 11:7
So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor” and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
Matthew 9:36
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.
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Matthew 10:18
Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 10:39
He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 24:9
“Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
Mark 13:13
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
Luke 9:24
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake will save it.
Luke 21:17
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.
John 16:22
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
Acts 9:16
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
Revelation 2:3
You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
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John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
John 15:23
He who hates me, hates my Father also.
John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
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Psalms 66:12
You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.
1 Corinthians 15:49
As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.
2 Corinthians 1:8
For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
2 Corinthians 4:10
always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
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1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Thessalonians 5:10
who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
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Mark 13:9
“But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
Luke 21:12
But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
Acts 26:6
Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
1 Corinthians 15:19
If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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Revelation 6:9
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.
Revelation 6:10
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
Revelation 6:11
A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
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