Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.


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Ezekiel 22 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
Hosea 7 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Zephaniah 3 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Isaiah 1 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Isaiah 59 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Ezekiel 26 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Psalms 55 11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Revelation 9 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
Ezekiel 23 25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
Hosea 4 18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
Proverbs 4 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 24 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
Ezra 9 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
Amos 3 10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Micah 6 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Proverbs 1 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Jeremiah 2 34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Amos 1 15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 6 7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
Job 15 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Deuteronomy 28 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
2 Samuel 16 8 The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
Lamentations 4 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
2 Kings 3 23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
Jeremiah 33 5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
Daniel 8 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
Habakkuk 1 10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Isaiah 19 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
Jeremiah 50 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
Exodus 21 8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
Jeremiah 22 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Lamentations 1 5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
Job 39 30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.
Isaiah 40 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Psalms 45 5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Ezekiel 22 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
Matthew 8 12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Jeremiah 50 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
Lamentations 1 6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
2 Peter 2 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Lamentations 1 2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
Psalms 107 40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
Zephaniah 3 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Jeremiah 50 26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Jeremiah 46 22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
Hosea 10 2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
Jeremiah 46 21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
Ezekiel 22 13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
Job 12 21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
Job 12 19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.