From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
Cross References
Job 9:23When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
Job 9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
Job 24:11They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
Job 24:13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
Psalm 109:22For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
Treasury of Scripture
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.
groan
Exodus 1:13,14
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: …
Exodus 2:23,24
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage…
Exodus 22:27
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
wounded
Psalm 69:26
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Psalm 109:22
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
yet God
Psalm 50:21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Ecclesiastes 8:11,12
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil…
Malachi 2:17
Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
