There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.


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Song of Solomon 4 2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Song of Solomon 6 6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.
Jeremiah 31 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Isaiah 42 22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Amos 8 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Proverbs 22 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Proverbs 13 2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
Ezekiel 7 15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
Joel 1 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
Jeremiah 29 18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
Isaiah 3 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Job 30 12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Habakkuk 1 9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
Ezekiel 22 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Psalms 124 6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Proverbs 24 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs 6 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Lamentations 4 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Proverbs 10 11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
2 Kings 21 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
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 10 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Proverbs 28 3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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.
Isaiah 14 30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
Jeremiah 24 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Proverbs 16 29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
Jeremiah 18 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
James 5 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Psalms 37 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Amos 5 9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Jeremiah 11 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
Psalms 37 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Proverbs 10 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Matthew 11 16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
Amos 9 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
Psalms 58 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Psalms 73 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Ezekiel 18 2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Deuteronomy 1 39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Ezekiel 5 17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
Jeremiah 31 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Proverbs 27 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Proverbs 19 1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
Genesis 45 11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Deuteronomy 1 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.
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.
Isaiah 8 21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Deuteronomy 32 5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
Psalms 3 7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.