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Psalms 34:15-16
The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry for help.The face of the LORD is set against those who do what is evil, to remove all memory of them from the earth.
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Jeremiah 12:1-2
You will be righteous, LORD, even if I bring a case against you. Yet, I wish to contend with you: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the treacherous live at ease?You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their conscience.
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Isaiah 64:12
LORD, after all this, will you restrain yourself? Will you keep silent and afflict us severely?
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Psalms 50:3
Our God is coming; he will not be silent! Devouring fire precedes him, and a storm rages around him.
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Proverbs 31:8-9
Speak up for those who have no voice, for the justice of all who are dispossessed.Speak up, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the oppressed and needy.
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Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked, evil person, until you look for his wickedness, but it can’t be found.
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Acts 2:23
Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.
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1 Kings 2 32
The LORD will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
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Psalms 37:12-15
The wicked person schemes against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him.The Lord laughs at him because he sees that his day is coming.The wicked have drawn the sword and strung the bow to bring down the poor and needy and to slaughter those whose way is upright.Their swords will enter their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.
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Psalms 35:22
You saw it, LORD; do not be silent. Lord, do not be far from me.
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Psalms 37:32-33
The wicked one lies in wait for the righteous and intends to kill him;the LORD will not leave him in the power of the wicked one or allow him to be condemned when he is judged.
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Psalms 73:3
For I envied the arrogant; I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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Psalms 50:21
You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But I will rebuke you and lay out the case before you.
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Job 15:15
If God puts no trust in his holy ones and the heavens are not pure in his sight,
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Psalms 11:4-7
The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD— his throne is in heaven. His eyes watch; his gaze examines everyone.The LORD examines the righteous, but he hates the wicked and those who love violence.Let him rain burning coals and sulfur on the wicked; let a scorching wind be the portion in their cup.For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds. The upright will see his face.
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Psalms 5:4-5
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with you.The boastful cannot stand in your sight; you hate all evildoers.
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Esther 4:14
If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.”
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Psalms 10:1-2
LORD, why do you stand so far away? Why do you hide in times of trouble?In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue their victims; let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
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Habakkuk 1:3-4
Why do you force me to look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Oppression and violence are right in front of me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.This is why the law is ineffective and justice never emerges. For the wicked restrict the righteous; therefore, justice comes out perverted.
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Isaiah 21:2
A troubling vision is declared to me:“ The treacherous one acts treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning.”
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Acts 3:13-15
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to release him.You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer released to you.You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.
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2 Samuel 4 11
How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth?”
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Psalms 83:1
God, do not keep silent. Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet.
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Isaiah 33:1
Woe, you destroyer never destroyed, you traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, they will betray you.
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Psalms 56:1-2
Be gracious to me, God, for a man is trampling me; he fights and oppresses me all day long.My adversaries trample me all day, for many arrogantly fight against me.
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1 Peter 1 15-1 Peter 1 16
But as the one who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct;for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.