Verse 18

"Earth, don't cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

Referenced Verses

• 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 will disclose her blood, and will no longer 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 certainly, 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 don't cover their iniquity, and don't let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted 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 you shall 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 your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;
• Jer 22:29 : 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.