his dead body shall not hang on the tree, but certainly you shall bury him on that day, for cursed by God [is] one that is [being] hung; so you shall not defile your land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance."

The city and all that is in it will be devoted to Yahweh; only Rahab the prostitute and all who [are] with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

Now the men of Israel were hard pressed on that day, because Saul had made the army take an oath, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats [any] food until evening, when I will have avenged myself on my enemies!" So none of the army tasted [any] food.

But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed!

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who does not abide by all [the things] that are written in the book of the law to do them."

My kinsmen

Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

And Laban said to him, "Surely you [are] my flesh and my bone!" And he stayed with him a month.

For {how can I bear} to look on the disaster that will find my people, and {how can I bear} to look on the destruction of my family?"

"But when {he was forty years old}, it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

"Men [and] brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you who fear God--to us the message of this salvation has been sent!

General references

Streams of water flow down [from] my eyes, because [people] do not heed your law.

Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Jesus wept.