Psalm 17:14

New American Bible - revised edition

Slay them with your sword; with your hand, Lord, slay them; snatch them from the world in their prime. Their bellies are being filled with your friends; their children are satisfied too, for they share what is left with their young.

Cross References

Job 12:6

Yet the tents of robbers are prosperous, and those who provoke God are secure, whom God has in his power.

Job 12:9

Which of all these does not know that the hand of God has done this?

Job 21:21

For what interest has he in his family after him, when the number of his months is finished?

Job 22:18

Yet he had filled their houses with good things. The designs of the wicked are far from me!

Psalm 39:6

To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days; indeed, my life is as nothing before you. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Psalm 73:12

Such, then, are the wicked, always carefree, increasing their wealth.

Proverbs 2:4

If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out,

Matthew 13:44

“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Luke 16:25

Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented.

Luke 16:8

And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. Application of the Parable. “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.

John 17:14

I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

John 8:23

He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world.

James 5:5

You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.