Psalm 12:1, 2
Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men. . . .

Psalm 55:9-11
O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city. . . .

Psalm 73:3-9
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. . . .

Psalm 120:5, 6
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar! . . .

Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again, I observed all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and higher still are over them.

Jeremiah 9:2-6
If only I had a traveler's lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people. . . .

Ezekiel 2:6
But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.

Micah 7:1-4
Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave. . . .

Matthew 10:16
Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

2 Peter 2:8
(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--