They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing ex
I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at t
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swa
And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, dec
“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treadi