Verse 3

Why doest thou shew me iniquitie, and cause me to beholde sorowe? for spoyling and violence are before me, & there are that rayse vp stryfe and contention,

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 55:9-9 : 9 Destroy their tongues O Lorde, and deuide them: for I haue seene oppression and strife in the citie. 10 They do compasse it day and night within the walles: mischiefe also and labour, are in the midst of it. 11 Malice is in the midst of it: disceipt and guyle go not out of her streates.
  • Ps 73:3-9 : 3 For I enuied at the case of the foolishe: I sawe the wicked flowe in all kynde of prosperitie. 4 For there be no bondes of death that can holde them: and the galaries of their houses be strong. 5 They come in no misfortune lyke other folke: neither are they plagued lyke other men. 6 And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them. 8 They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously. 9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde.
  • Ps 120:5-6 : 5 Wo be vnto me that am constrayned to be conuersaunt in Mesech: and to dwell among the tentes of Cedar. 6 My soule hath dwelt long: with hym that hateth peace.
  • Eccl 4:1 : 1 So I turned me, and considered all the violent wrong that is done vnder the sunne: and beholde the teares of such as were oppressed, and there was no man to comfort them, or that woulde deliuer and defende them from the violence of their oppressours.
  • Eccl 5:8 : 8 If thou seest the poore to be oppressed, and wrongfully dealt withall, so that equitie and right of the lawe is wrested in the lande, maruayle not thou at such a thyng: for he that is higher then the hyghest regardeth, and there be hygher then they.
  • Jer 9:2-6 : 2 Woulde God that I had a cottage somewhere farre from folke, that I might leaue my people and go from them, for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort. 3 They bend their tongues like vowes to shoote out lyes, they waxe strong vppon earth: As for the trueth, they may nothing away withall in the worlde, for they go from one wickednes to another, and wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde. 4 Yea, one must kepe hym selfe from another, no man may safely trust his owne brother: for one brother vndermindeth another, one neighbour beguileth another. 5 Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe. 6 Thou sittest in the middes of a deceiptfull people, which for very dissembling falshood wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde.
  • Jer 20:8 : 8 For since I began to preache, I cryed out against violencie, and exclamed against oppression: for the whiche cause they cast the worde of the Lorde in my teeth, to my reproche continually.
  • Ezek 2:6 : 6 And thou sonne of man feare them not, neither be afraide of their wordes, for bryers and thornes are with thee, and thou doest dwell among scorpions: feare not their wordes, nor be abashed at their lookes, for they are a rebellious house.
  • Mic 7:1-4 : 1 Wo is me, I am become as one that goeth a gleanyng in the haruest: there are no mo grapes to eate, yet would I faine with al my hearte haue of the best fruite. 2 There is not a godly vpon earth, there is not one righteous among men: they al lye in wayte for blood, and euery man hunteth his brother to death. 3 Yet they say they do wel, when they do euyll: the prince asketh, and the iudge iudgeth for a rewarde, therfore the great man speaketh out of the corruption of his soule, and so they wrappe it vp. 4 The best of them is as bryer, and the most righteous of them is sharper then a thorne hedge: the day of thy watchmen, and of thy visitation commeth: then shalbe their confusion.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 Beholde, I sende you foorth, as sheepe in the middest of woolfes. Be ye therfore wyse as serpentes, and harmelesse as doues.
  • 2 Pet 2:8 : 8 For he beyng ryghteous, & dwellyng among them, in seyng and hearyng, vexed his ryghteous soule from daye to daye with their vnlawfull deedes.
  • Ps 12:1-2 : 1 To the chiefe musition vpon (an instrument) of eyght stringes, a psalme of Dauid. Saue thou me O God, for there is not one godly man left: for the faythfull are diminished from among the chyldren of men. 2 Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.