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Psalm 7:2
or they will shred my soul like a lion, and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

Psalm 14:4
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

Psalm 44:22
Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Psalm 74:8, 19, 20
They said in their hearts, "We will crush them completely." They burned down every place where God met us in the land. . . .

Psalm 79:2, 3, 7
They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. . . .

Psalm 129:2, 3
many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me. . . .

Isaiah 3:15
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Isaiah 52:5
And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed all day long.

Jeremiah 22:17
"But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression."

Jeremiah 51:20-23, 34
"You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. . . .

Micah 3:2, 3
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from My people and strip the flesh from their bones. . . .

Revelation 17:6
I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and of the witnesses for Jesus. And I was greatly astonished at the sight of her.

afflict

Exodus 2:23, 24
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God. . . .

Jeremiah 50:11
"Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph--you who plunder My inheritance--because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

Revelation 11:3
And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1, 260 days, clothed in sackcloth."