It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.
Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.
And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.
And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.
A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.
Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,
But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.
They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.
He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.
Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.
My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.
Let your right hand be stretched out for salvation, and give me an answer, so that your loved ones may be safe from danger.
I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.
To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.
My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)
I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.
If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.
My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.
My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.
Now in the middle of the night, the man awaking from his sleep in fear, and lifting himself up, saw a woman stretched at his feet.
So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.
The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:
And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,
And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.
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