1 Kings 12:11
Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'"
Exodus 1:13-14
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
Exodus 5:5-9
Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens."
Exodus 5:18
Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"
1 Samuel 8:18
You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day."
1 Kings 12:14
and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."
2 Chronicles 16:10
Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
Isaiah 58:6
"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Jeremiah 27:11
But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that [nation] will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
Jeremiah 28:13-14
Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of wood; but you have made in their place bars of iron.
Ezekiel 2:6
You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
Revelation 9:3-10
Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.