But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Moving me to wrath with the work of your hands, burning perfumes to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to make a place for yourselves, so that you may become a curse and a name of shame among all the nations of the earth?
Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.
From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.
Send for the archers to come together against Babylon, all the bowmen; put up your tents against her on every side; let no one get away: give her the reward of her work; as she has done, so do to her: for she has been uplifted in pride against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
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?
Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?
At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.
He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.
For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.
Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.
He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.
Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.
This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.
You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
I have given you glory on the earth, having done all the work which you gave me to do.
Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.
But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.
Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.
This was the answer of Jesus: I have done one work and you are all surprised at it.
While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.
Then they said to him, Now make clear to us what is your work, and where you come from? what is your country, and who are your people?
And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;
And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.
And when the children of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, in place of driving them out.
And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.
And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given.
And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely.
Zebulun did not make the people of Kitron or the people of Nahalol go out; but the Canaanites went on living among them and were put to forced work.
And Manoah said, Now when your words come true, what is to be the rule for the child and what will be his work?
Naphtali did not take the land of the people of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, driving them out; but he was living among the Canaanites in the land; however, the people of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath were put to forced work.
For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the children of Joseph became stronger than they, and put them to forced work.
For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.
Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields; he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.
So now, if you have done truly and uprightly in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well to Jerubbaal and his house in reward for the work of his hands;
Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.
See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!
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.
You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.
The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:
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