Quotes about Violence
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
- Psalm 74:20
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
- Psalm 79:3
Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
- Psalm 120:4
Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
- Psalm 137:9
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
- Psalm 140:1
Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
- Psalm 140:4
May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
- Psalm 140:11
For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
- Proverbs 1:16
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
- Proverbs 3:31
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
- Proverbs 4:17
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
- Proverbs 6:17
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
- Proverbs 10:6