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Psalms 17:12
They are like a lion eager to tear, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
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Psalms 59:3
Because look, LORD, they set an ambush for me. Powerful men attack me, but not because of any sin or rebellion of mine.
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Micah 7:2
Faithful people have vanished from the land; there is no one upright among the people. All of them wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt each other with a net.
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Psalms 35:10
All my bones will say,“ LORD, who is like you, rescuing the poor from one too strong for him, the poor or the needy from one who robs him?”
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Habakkuk 3:14
You pierce his head with his own spears; his warriors storm out to scatter us, gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.
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John 10:12
The hired hand, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.
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Nahum 2:11-12
Where is the lions’ lair, or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled, and the lion’s cub, with nothing to frighten them away?The lion mauled whatever its cubs needed and strangled prey for its lionesses. It filled up its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
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Proverbs 22:16
Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich— both lead only to poverty.
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Amos 5:11-12
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.For I know your crimes are many and your sins innumerable. They oppress the righteous, take a bribe, and deprive the poor of justice at the city gates.
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Habakkuk 1:15
The Chaldeans pull them all up with a hook, catch them in their dragnet, and gather them in their fishing net; that is why they are glad and rejoice.
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Job 5:15-16
He saves the needy from their sharp words and from the clutches of the powerful.So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
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Amos 2:6-7
The LORD says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.
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Psalms 12:5
“ Because of the devastation of the needy and the groaning of the poor, I will now rise up,” says the LORD.“ I will provide safety for the one who longs for it.”
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Lamentations 3:10
He is a bear waiting in ambush, a lion in hiding.
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Amos 3:4
Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion growl from its lair unless it has captured something?
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Psalms 140:5
The proud hide a trap with ropes for me; they spread a net along the path and set snares for me. Selah
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Isaiah 32:7
The scoundrel’s weapons are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the needy with lies, even when the poor person says what is right.
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Zechariah 11:3
Listen to the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. Listen to the roar of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
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Isaiah 3:15
Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD of Armies.
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Proverbs 14:31
The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker, but one who is kind to the needy honors him.
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Ezekiel 19:3-6
She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.When the nations heard about him, he was caught in their pit. Then they led him away with hooks to the land of Egypt.When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.He prowled among the lions, and he became a young lion. After he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.
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Proverbs 28:15
A wicked ruler over a helpless people is like a roaring lion or a charging bear.
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Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and unlawfully exploited the resident alien.
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Jeremiah 5:26
for wicked men live among my people. They watch like hunters lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
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Acts 23:21
Don’t let them persuade you, because there are more than forty of them lying in ambush— men who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, waiting for your consent.”
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Psalms 37:14
The wicked have drawn the sword and strung the bow to bring down the poor and needy and to slaughter those whose way is upright.
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Psalms 109:31
For he stands at the right hand of the needy to save him from those who would condemn him.