Quotes about Violence
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
— Jeremiah 22:3
Then Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.
— Jeremiah 41:2
Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Chaldean soldiers who were there.
— Jeremiah 41:3
And when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.
— Jeremiah 41:7
to escape the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of the Chaldeans because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
— Jeremiah 41:18
For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
— Jeremiah 49:26
“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”
— Jeremiah 49:27
Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 50:30
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
— Jeremiah 50:42
Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
— Jeremiah 51:3
And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
— Jeremiah 51:4
May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 51:35