Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.
You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor
As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are
I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mou
Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men
How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an allian
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your vo
Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge
And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He look
Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is
Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none