Quotes About Violence

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,

who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.

May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence.

A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.

He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.

for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.

Like cutting off oneís own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.

Like a madman shooting firebrands and deadly arrows,

Men of bloodshed hate a blameless man, but the upright care for his life.

there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.

I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.