For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.

A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.

And you did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land; for you saw how cruel they were to them. So you got yourself a name as it is today.

And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters.

And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.

Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?

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?

The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.

I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;

This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.

The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.

You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.

Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;

You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.

The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;

But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.

And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on through long years.

And the Lord your God will put all these curses on those who are against you, and on your haters who put a cruel yoke on you.

Then they will be cruel to you, and will put you to death: and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.

Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.

And is cruel to the other servants, taking his pleasure with those who are overcome with wine;

And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

Then they put shame on him, and were cruel to him: and some gave him blows, saying,

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

And crying out with a loud voice he said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, do not be cruel to me.

Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.

Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.

And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.

Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.

The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

Take me out of the hands of the cruel ones, O my God; keep me safe from those who come up against me.

These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in danger, and the children of Ammon were very cruel to us, and when I sent for you, you gave me no help against them.

And they will make sport of him, and put shame on him, and give him cruel blows, and will put him to death; and after three days he will come back from the dead.

And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land;

And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him.

O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

Make me free from the cruel rule of man; then I will keep your orders.

Rulers have been cruel to me without cause; but I have the fear of your word in my heart.

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.

And he saw that it was, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast has put him to death; without doubt Joseph has come to a cruel end.

And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?

A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel.

But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.

And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.

If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour,

Causing sin to come on him, then he will have to give back the thing he took by force or got by cruel acts, or the goods which were put in his care or the thing he came on by chance,

And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers: