Verse 2

Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones,

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.
  • Ps 53:4 : 4 Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.
  • Ezek 34:3 : 3 The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.
  • Amos 5:10-14 : 10 They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate. 11 Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine. 12 For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside. 13 Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it `is'. 14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live, And it is so; Jehovah, God of Hosts, `is' with you, as ye said.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land, 5 Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. 6 To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her heads in her midst `are' roaring lions, Her judges `are' evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.
  • Zech 11:4-5 : 4 Thus said Jehovah my God: `Feed the flock of the slaughter, 5 Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed `is' Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.
  • John 7:7 : 7 the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
  • John 15:18-19 : 18 if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; 19 if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; 24 if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;
  • John 18:40 : 40 therefore they all cried out again, saying, `Not this one -- but Barabbas;' and Barabbas was a robber.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye; 52 which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;
  • 2 Tim 3:3 : 3 without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,
  • Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself? 22 `With' perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
  • Prov 28:4 : 4 Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.
  • Isa 3:15 : 15 What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab saith unto Elijah, `Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, `I have found -- because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;
  • 1 Kgs 22:6-8 : 6 and the king of Israel gathereth the prophets, about four hundred men, and saith unto them, `Do I go against Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or do I forbear?' and they say, `Go up, and the Lord doth give `it' into the hand of the king.' 7 And Jehoshaphat saith, `Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah besides, and we seek by him?' 8 And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, `Let not the king say so.'
  • 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 and go out unto his presence doth Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, and saith unto king Jehoshaphat, `To give help to the wicked, and to those hating Jehovah, dost thou love? and for this against thee `is' wrath from before Jehovah,
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 Despised in his eyes `is' a rejected one, And those fearing Jehovah he doth honour. He hath sworn to suffer evil, and changeth not;