Quotes About Violence

But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.

In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,

the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Though I cry out, ëViolence!í I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.

You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.

As for the deeds of men—by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.

who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.

Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.

Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees

Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.