then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants -- great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

Moreover, the Lord says to the people of Zion, "Your injuries are incurable; your wounds are severe.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

Now the battle was very severe that day; Abner and the men of Israel were overcome by David's soldiers.

The men of Israel replied to the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and we have a greater claim on David than you do! Why do you want to curse us? Weren't we the first to suggest bringing back our king?" But the comments of the men of Judah were more severe than those of the men of Israel.

After this the son of the woman who owned the house got sick. His illness was so severe he could no longer breathe.

So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

He said to them, "Pick me up and throw me into the sea to make the sea quiet down, because I know it's my fault you are in this severe storm."

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

Severe discipline is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof will die.

Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment."

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors.

That servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, for the oppression of the king is severe upon his victim.

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.'

The king said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn't deposit and reaping what I didn't sow?

They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment."

The light of the full moon will be like the sun's glare and the sun's glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the Lord binds up his people's fractured bones and heals their severe wound.

One of them, named Agabus, got up and predicted by the Spirit that a severe famine was about to come over the whole inhabited world. (This took place during the reign of Claudius.)

So I will choose severe punishment for them; I will bring on them what they dread, because I called, and no one responded, I spoke and they did not listen. They did evil before me; they chose to do what displeases me."

And I cried out, "We are doomed! Our wound is severe! We once thought, 'This is only an illness. And we will be able to bear it!'

that during a severe ordeal of suffering, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in the wealth of their generosity.

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.

While the famine was over all the earth, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

So Israel's sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Then they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants' flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen."

But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. So the land became Pharaoh's.

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Hail fell and fire mingled with the hail; the hail was so severe that there had not been any like it in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.