-
Isaiah 3:15
Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” The sovereign LORD who commands armies has spoken.
-
Micah 3:2-3
yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones.You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.
-
Psalms 79:2-3
They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.
-
Psalms 74:8
They say to themselves,“ We will oppress all of them.” They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land.
-
Revelation 11:3
And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.
-
Psalms 44:22
Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.
-
Psalms 79:7
For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home.
-
Exodus 2:23-24
During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
-
Jeremiah 51:20-23
“ Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.I used you to smash horses and their riders. I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders.”
-
Psalms 7:2
Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.
-
Jeremiah 50:11
“ People of Babylonia, you plundered my people. That made you happy and glad. You frolic about like calves in a pasture. Your joyous sounds are like the neighs of a stallion.
-
Jeremiah 51:34
“ King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out.”
-
Psalms 129:2-3
“ Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me.The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.
-
Psalms 14:4
All those who behave wickedly do not understand– those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the LORD.
-
Revelation 17:6
I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified to Jesus. I was greatly astounded when I saw her.
-
Jeremiah 22:17
But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.
-
Psalms 74:19-20
Do not hand the life of your dove over to a wild animal! Do not continue to disregard the lives of your oppressed people!Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.
-
Isaiah 52:5
And now, what do we have here?” says the LORD.“ Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt,” says the LORD,“ and my name is constantly slandered all day long.
