'Crush' in the Bible
“I see Him, but not now;I behold Him, but not near.A star shall come forth from [the descendants of] Jacob,A scepter shall rise out of [the descendants of] IsraelAnd shall crush the forehead of MoabAnd destroy all the sons of Sheth.
“O Lord, bless Levi’s substance (ability),And accept and take pleasure in the work of his hands;Crush and shatter the loins of those who rise up against him,And of those who hate him, so that they do not rise again.”
For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, [to find the right time] to disturb and destroy them.
“I wish that it would please God to crush me,That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.
Forgetting that a foot may crush them,Or that the wild beast may trample them.
That your foot may crush them in blood,That the tongue of your dogs may have its share from your enemies.”
May he bring justice to the poor among the people,Save the children of the needyAnd crush the oppressor,
They crush Your people, O Lord,And afflict and abuse Your heritage.
He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations;He will fill them with corpses,He will crush the chief men over a broad country.
Bread grain is crushed fine,Indeed, the farmer does not continue to thresh it forever.Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it,He does not thresh it longer.
“The Lord has rejected all the strong menIn my midst;He has proclaimed an established time against meTo crush my young men.The Lord has trampled down as in a wine pressThe Virgin Daughter of Judah.
To trample and crush under His feetAll the prisoners of the land,
Then a fourth kingdom (Rome) will be strong as iron, for iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things; and like iron which crushes things in pieces, it will break and crush all these [others].
In the days of those [final ten] kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left for another people; but it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
“Thus the angel said, ‘The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down, and crush it.
Hear this word, you [well-fed, pampered] cows (women) of Bashan who are on the mountain of Samaria,Who oppress the poor, who crush the needy,Who say to their husbands, “Bring [the wine] now, and let us drink!”
They covet fields and seize them,And houses, and take them away.They oppress and rob a man and his house,A man and his inheritance.
And He told His disciples to have a small boat stand ready for Him because of the many people, so that they would not crowd Him;
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken and shattered in pieces; and on whomever it falls, it will crush him.”
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.The [wonderful] grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.