Job 16:18
O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
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Job 16:17
yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Job 16:19
Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high!

Psalm 119:169
May my cry come before You, O LORD; give me understanding according to Your word.

Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and no longer conceal her slain.

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O earth

Jeremiah 22:29
O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

cover not

Genesis 4:11
Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Nehemiah 4:5
Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and no longer conceal her slain.

Ezekiel 24:7
For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

let my cry

Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

Psalm 66:18, 19
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. . . .

Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Isaiah 58:9, 10
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, 'Here I am.' If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk, . . .

James 4:3, 4
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures. . . .

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