חָמָס

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, she despised me. May Yahweh judge between me and you.”

“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man:

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.

Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.

“ ‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.