Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have put a hard question to the children of my people and have not given me the answer. And he said to her, See, I have not given the answer even to my father or my mother; am I to give it to you?
And the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and, attacking thirty men there, took their clothing from them, and gave it to the men who had given the answer to his hard question. Then, full of wrath, he went back to his father's house.
And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five thousand of them were cut off by the men of Israel, who, pushing on hard after them to Geba, put to death two thousand more.
And the Philistines put their forces in order against Israel, and the fighting was hard, and Israel was overcome by the Philistines, who put to the sword about four thousand of their army in the field.
But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.
And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, Let not the ark of the God of Israel be with us, for his hand is hard on us and on Dagon our god.
So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.
Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?
And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.
And he was so deeply in love that he became ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and so it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.
He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.
And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let us come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.
Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions.
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.
And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.
But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.
And he said, You have made a hard request: still, if you see me when I am taken from you, you will get your desire; but if not, it will not be so.
And the Philistines went hard after Saul and his sons, and put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.
Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.
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.
And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.
But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.
And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.
After him Baruch, the son of Zabbai, was hard at work on another part, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib, the chief priest.
So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.
Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.
But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.
My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?
Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.
You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.
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.
Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.
The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.
He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.
Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.
No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.
I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.
And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.
I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.
I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.
The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.
<A song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.
He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.
My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.
He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.
Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.
A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.
And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;
Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.
Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.
And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,
And I will give the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a hard king will be their ruler, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
See, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything so hard that I am unable to do it?
Judah has been taken away as a prisoner because of trouble and hard work; her living-place is among the nations, there is no rest for her: all her attackers have overtaken her in a narrow place.
They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.
For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;
Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.
But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.
See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.
Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it.
I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord.
The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh.
Because a most special spirit, and knowledge and reason and the power of reading dreams and unfolding dark sayings and answering hard questions, were seen to be in him, even in Daniel (named Belteshazzar by the king): now let Daniel be sent for, and he will make clear the sense of the writing.
And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:
In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.
And the men were working hard to get back to the land, but they were not able to do so: for the sea got rougher and rougher against them.
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.
But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.
Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins.
For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.
And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, It is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.
Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.
They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.
But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.
And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:
And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.
For it was not clear to them about the bread; but their hearts were hard.
And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard?
Then again he put his hands on his eyes; and looking hard, he was able to see, and saw all things clearly.
But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law.
And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!
And the disciples were full of wonder at his words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how hard it is for those who put faith in wealth to come into the kingdom of God!
Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.
And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.
And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.
And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God!
Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.
He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;
It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.
Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?
He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
But Saul, whose other name is Paul, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking hard at him, said,
And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.
Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
But because some of the people were hard-hearted and would not give hearing, saying evil words about the Way before the people, he went away from them, and kept the disciples separate, reasoning every day in the school of Tyrannus.
And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you.
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