it will be a nation whose language you don't understand, whose stern appearance neither shows regard nor extends grace to anyone whether old or young.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

A rebellious man seeks only evil;
Therefore a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

The stern in wrath lifted up a fine: for if thou shalt deliver and thou shalt yet add.

Who is like the wise man and who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom illumines him and causes his stern face to beam.

Then their eyes were opened. And assuming a stern tone Jesus said to them, "Be careful to let no one know."

Then he sent him off at once with the stern charge,

And he himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion: and they awake him, and say unto him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish?

I was [always] afraid of you, because you are a stern man; you pick up what you did not lay down and you reap what you did not sow.’

He said to the servant, ‘I will judge and condemn you by your own words, you worthless servant! Did you [really] know that I was a stern man, picking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

But to keep it from spreading further among the people and the nation, let us [sternly] warn them not to speak again to anyone in this name.”

Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

But lighting upon a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the foreship struck and remained unmoveable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves .