Psalms 39:10

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.

Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”

What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?

My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

“The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up.”

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you?

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

Woe is me because of my injury! My wound is serious; but I said, “Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.”

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Ask now among the nations, ‘Who has heard such things?’ The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

For Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.

Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let the your eyes rest.

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’ ”

Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.

For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.

You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.

David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.