Job 16:18

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O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never find a resting place.

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  • Isa 26:21 : 21 See, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; it will conceal its slain no longer.
  • Ezek 24:7 : 7 For the blood she has shed is inside her; she placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.
  • Gen 4:11 : 11 'Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.'
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. 19 But truly, God has listened; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Neh 4:5 : 5 Our enemies said, 'They won’t know or see a thing until we come among them, kill them, and stop the work.'
  • Job 27:9 : 9 Will God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?
  • Jas 4:3-4 : 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
  • Isa 58:9-9 : 9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: 'Here I am.' If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing finger, and malicious talk. 10 If you offer yourself to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like noonday.
  • Jer 22:29 : 29 O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

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