And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;
And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.
If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.
And he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has put him to death; without doubt Joseph has come to a cruel end.
And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?
A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.
He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:
But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.
And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.
And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.
If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;
If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour,
Causing sin to come on him, then he will have to give back the thing he took by force or got by cruel acts, or the goods which were put in his care or the thing he came on by chance,
Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.
How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:
Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:
And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.
That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;
And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.
And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.
Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on through long years.
And the Lord your God will put all these curses on those who are against you, and on your haters who put a cruel yoke on you.
Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.
Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.
And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.
Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.
And I took you out of the hands of the egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land;
And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down.
And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in danger, and the children of Ammon were very cruel to us, and when I sent for you, you gave me no help against them.
And those men who were not overtaken by death were cruelly diseased: and the cry of the town went up to heaven.
And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.
Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.
He was a trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. And this is the damage Hadad did: he was cruel to Israel while he was ruler over Edom.
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.
But Elisha was in his house, and the responsible men were seated there with him; and before the king got there, Elisha said to those who were with him, Do you see how this cruel and violent man has sent to take away my life?
Then Jehoahaz made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord gave ear to him, for he saw how cruelly Israel was crushed by the king of Aram.
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.
Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.
And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.
And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.
And you did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land; for you saw how cruel they were to them. So you got yourself a name as it is today.
And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters.
Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?
What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:
Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.
The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.
You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.
She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?
You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.
<Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite.> O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;
You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.
The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
<To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
<To the chief music-maker; put to At-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When Saul sent, and they were watching the house, to put him to death.> Take me out of the hands of the cruel ones, O my God; keep me safe from those who come up against me.
Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.
Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.
O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?
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