Psalms 74:19
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
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Psalms 74:19
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
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Genesis 15:9
He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
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Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
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Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
Exodus 19:6
and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
Numbers 16:3
They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
Song of Solomon 2:2
As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Beloved
Song of Solomon 5:2
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Matthew 3:16
Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
Revelation 1:6
and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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Judges 16:28
Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
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.
Jonah 2:1
Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
Jonah 2:2
He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
Jonah 2:7
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
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1 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
1 Kings 4:21
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Psalms 105:37
He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
Psalms 149:4
For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
Ezekiel 16:6
“ ‘ “When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’
Ezekiel 16:7
I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent beauty. Your breasts were formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8
“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
Ezekiel 16:9
“ ‘ “Then I washed you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10
I clothed you also with embroidered work and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezekiel 16:11
I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.
Ezekiel 16:12
I put a ring on your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
Luke 15:16
He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
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Psalms 14:1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
Psalms 53:1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.
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Psalms 17:9
from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
Psalms 27:12
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
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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 9:18
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
Psalms 14:6
You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
Psalms 34:6
This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalms 69:29
But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
Psalms 72:13
He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.
Psalms 107:41
Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.
Psalms 109:31
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.
Psalms 140:12
I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
Zephaniah 3:12
But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?
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Psalms 44:14
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Psalms 44:16
at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms 137:3
For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
Jeremiah 51:51
“We are confounded because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”
Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
Lamentations 2:17
Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Ezekiel 36:5
therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.” ’
Ezekiel 36:6
Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.”
Ezekiel 36:7
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
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Psalms 10:1
Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Psalms 10:11
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
Psalms 13:1
How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Psalms 35:22
You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.
Psalms 44:24
Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms 79:5
How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 80:3
Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
Psalms 80:4
Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Psalms 83:1
God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
Psalms 89:46
How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
Psalms 89:48
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
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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 44:22
Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 56:1
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Psalms 74:2
Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
Psalms 94:5
They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
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 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.
Ezekiel 7:22
I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.
1 Peter 5:3
not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
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.
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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 79:3
They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
Psalms 79:7
for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
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.
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 51:21
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 51:23
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.
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 68:30
Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample under foot the bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
Psalms 72:2
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Psalms 86:1
Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
Proverbs 6:11
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
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Psalms 89:49
Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
Psalms 89:50
Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
Isaiah 42:14
“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
Isaiah 64:12
Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?
Jeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Zechariah 1:12
Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
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Psalms 44:10
You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
Psalms 44:11
You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
Psalms 44:12
You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
Psalms 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
Psalms 89:41
All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Psalms 137:2
On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.
Isaiah 38:14
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
Ezekiel 36:4
therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
Amos 1:11
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
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Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”
Isaiah 40:28
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
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Jeremiah 3:22
Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
Jeremiah 3:23
Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
Jeremiah 3:24
But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Jeremiah 3:25
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”
Jeremiah 31:19
Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
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Ezekiel 16:13
Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.
Ezekiel 16:14
Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Luke 15:22
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
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Ezekiel 36:30
I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
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Hosea 11:11
They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.
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Psalms 82:1
God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
Revelation 11:8
Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
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