Psa 55:9-11, Jer 20:8, Eze 7:11, 23, 22:3-12, 24:7, Mic 2:1-2, 8-10 | ESV | STEP | Destroy , O Lord , divide their tongues ; for I see violence and strife in the city .

9 Destroy, O Lord, ^adivide their tongues;
for I see ^bviolence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go around it
on its walls,
and ^ciniquity and trouble are within it;
11 ruin is in its midst;
^doppression and fraud
do not depart from its marketplace.

Jeremiah 20:8

8 For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I shout, ^e“Violence and destruction!”
For ^fthe word of the Lord has become for me
^ga reproach and ^hderision all day long.

Ezekiel 7:11

11 ⁱViolence has grown up into ^ja rod of wickedness. ^kNone of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them. ^{▼▼The meaning of this last Hebrew sentence is uncertain}

Ezekiel 7:23

23 ^m“Forge a chain! ^{▼▼Probably refers to an instrument of captivity} ^oFor the land is full of bloody crimes ^pand the city is full of violence.

Ezekiel 22:3-12

3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that ^qher time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4 You have become guilty ^rby the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought ^syour days near, the appointed time of ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts until} your years has come. ^uTherefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; ^vyour name is defiled; ^wyou are full of tumult.

6 “Behold, ^xthe princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother ^yare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner ^zsuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow ^aaare wronged in you. 8 ^abYou have despised my holy things and ^acprofaned my Sabbaths. 9 ^adThere are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you ^aewho eat on the mountains; ^afthey commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you ^agmen uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 ^ahOne commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; ^aianother lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; ^ajanother in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you ^akthey take bribes to shed blood; ^alyou take interest and profit ^{▼▼That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)} and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but ^anme you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Ezekiel 24:7

7 For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on ^aothe bare rock; ^apshe did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to the Oppressors

1 ^aqWoe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil ^aron their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and ^asseize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.

Micah 2:8-10

8 But lately ^atmy people have risen up as an enemy;
you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly
with no thought of war. ^{▼▼Or returning from war}
9 The women of my people you drive out
from their delightful houses;
from their young children you take away
my splendor forever.
10 ^avArise and go,
for this is no ^awplace to rest,
because of ^axuncleanness that destroys
with a grievous destruction.