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.

I lie with my soul among the cruel lions; even among the children of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

I am daily receiving new mortifications, witness your cruel boastings against me, which I bear for the sake of Christ Jesus our Lord;

When they are diminished and are humbled
by cruel oppression and sorrow,

cruel, enemies to virtue, traitors, insolent, conceited, and more devoted to pleasure than to piety:

Meanwhile the men who held Jesus in custody repeatedly beat Him in cruel sport,

I [am] weak today even though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, [are] crueler than I [am]. May Yahweh pay them back for doing wickedness according to their [own] wickedness."

I know that, when I am gone, cruel wolves will come among you and will not spare the flock;

And Jesus replied, He wrote this precept on account of your cruel tempers:

The Lord will deliver me from every cruel attack and will keep me safe in preparation for His heavenly Kingdom. To Him be the glory until the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

And now be not grieved therewith, neither let it seem a cruel thing in your eyes, that ye sold me hither. For God did send me before you to save life.

and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.

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.

And there began an exceeding cruel battle that same day. But Abner and the men of Israel were put to the worse of the servants of David.

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.

But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came to the door, he said, "Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why feignest thou thyself to be another? I am sent to thee a cruel messenger.

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

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.

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:

And so he delivereth the poor from the sword, from the threatenings of the ungodly, and from the hand of the cruel;

Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon dry stubble?

then sheweth he them their works and deeds and the sins wherewith they have used cruel violence.

It is he that delivereth me from my cruel enemies, and setteth me up against mine adversaries: thou shalt rid me from the wicked man. {TYNDALE: And delivereth me from mine enemies: thou liftest me up on high from them that rise against me, and deliverest me from the wicked men.}

Cruel witnesses rose up; they asked of me that which I never knew.

For strangers have risen up against me, and cruel men seek after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah.

He shall judge the poor of the people; He shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush in pieces the cruel one.

Do not envy the cruel man, and choose none of his ways.