Job 16:18
"Earth, don't cover my blood, Let my cry have no place to rest.
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- Isa 26:21 : 21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
- Ezek 24:7 : 7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
- Gen 4:11 : 11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I cherished sin in my heart, The Lord wouldn't have listened. 19 But most assuredly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
- Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
- Neh 4:5 : 5 and don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have provoked [you] to anger before the builders.
- Job 27:9 : 9 Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes on him?
- Jas 4:3-4 : 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
- Isa 58:9-9 : 9 Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly; 10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;
- Jer 22:29 : 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.
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- Job 16:15-173 verses80%
15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
17 Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
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19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
- Gen 4:10-112 verses74%
10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
11 Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Ps 30:8-92 verses73%
8 I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication:
9 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
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12 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A foreigner, as all my fathers were.
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56 You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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1 > Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
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7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
- Ezek 24:7-82 verses72%
7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.
8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
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38 If my land cries out against me, And the furrows of it weep together;
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13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
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17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him.
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9 Don't gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
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1 > To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
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21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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24 Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness; Don't let them gloat over me.
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1 > Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.
- Jer 18:22-232 verses70%
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.
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2 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.
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12 Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.
- Job 13:19-202 verses70%
19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
20 "Only don't do two things to me; Then I will not hide myself from your face:
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14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
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17 Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
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15 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.
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12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.
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18 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
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21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
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2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
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20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
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3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
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1 > God of my praise, don't remain silent,
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5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
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10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
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1 > Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.
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17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
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1 > Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide yourself from my supplication.
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22 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
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6 In my distress I called on Yahweh, And cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, My cry before him came into his ears.
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20 Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
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8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.