Psalms 94:5
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They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.
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Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.
for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
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 continually all day long.
“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,