there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men. Cross References Job 29:17 I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth. Psalm 14:4 Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD. Psalm 57:4 My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts--with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords. Psalm 124:6 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth. Proverbs 30:15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, 'Enough!': Isaiah 3:14 The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: "You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses. Amos 8:4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, Treasury of Scripture There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men. whose Proverbs 12:18 Job 29:17 Psalm 3:7 to devour Proverbs 22:16 Proverbs 28:3 Psalm 10:8,9 |