Bible Verses About Robbers

If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

We swallow them as Sheol--alive, And whole--as those going down to the pit,

Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil,

Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is--to all of us.'

My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

A den of burglars hath this house, On which My name is called, been in your eyes? Even I, lo, I have seen, an affirmation of Jehovah.

And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder--the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

`When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have wrought falsehood, And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street,