Bible Cross References
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Psalm 12:1
i1 [To the Chief Musician. Sheminith. A Psalm of David.] i0 par Help, Jehovah, for the godly man ceases; for the faithful have vanished from among the sons of men.
Psalm 12:2
They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Psalm 55:9-11
9
Swallow up, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10
Day and night they go around upon its walls; wickedness and trouble are also in its midst.
11
Lust is in its midst; oppression and guile do not depart from its streets.
Psalm 73:3-9
3
For I was jealous of the boastful, when I saw the peace of the wicked.
4
For there are no bonds in their death; but their belly is fat.
5
They are not in trouble like other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them like a garment.
7
Their eyes bulge with fatness; they have more than the heart could imagine.
8
They scoff and speak of evil oppression; they speak arrogantly.
9
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongues walk through the earth.
Psalm 120:5
Woe is me, that I have sojourned in Meshech, that I have dwelt in the tents of Kedar!
Psalm 120:6
My soul has dwelt long with him who hates peace.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not be astonished at the matter; for He who is higher than the highest watches; so there are those higher than they.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.
4
Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant and assail his neighbor, and will walk with slanderers.
5
And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6
Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.
Ezekiel 2:6
And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
Micah 7:1-4
1
Woe is me! For I am like the gatherings of summer fruit, like the gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the first-ripe fruit.
2
The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.
3
Both hands are on evil, to do it well. Both the ruler and the judge ask for a bribe. And the great one speaks the lust of his soul; and they weave it together.
4
The best of them is like a thorn; the upright more than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchman and your punishment comes; now shall be their perplexity.
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
2 Peter 2:8
(for that righteous man, dwelling among them, his righteous soul was tormented from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds);