Psalm 38:2
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2 Your arrows have struck deep,
and your blows are crushing me.
Psalm 32:4
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4 Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me.
My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude
Job 6:4
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4 For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows.
Their poison infects my spirit.
God’s terrors are lined up against me.
Lamentations 3:12
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12 He has drawn his bow
and made me the target for his arrows.
Psalm 64:7
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7 But God himself will shoot them with his arrows,
suddenly striking them down.
Psalm 39:10-11
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10 But please stop striking me!
I am exhausted by the blows from your hand.
11 When you discipline us for our sins,
you consume like a moth what is precious to us.
Each of us is but a breath. Interlude
Psalm 21:12
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12 For they will turn and run
when they see your arrows aimed at them.
1 Samuel 6:9
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9 If they cross the border of our land and go to Beth-shemesh, we will know it was the Lord who brought this great disaster upon us. If they don’t, we will know it was not his hand that caused the plague. It came simply by chance.”
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1 Samuel 5:11
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11 The people summoned the Philistine rulers again and begged them, “Please send the Ark of the God of Israel back to its own country, or it[a] will kill us all.” For the deadly plague from God had already begun, and great fear was sweeping across the town.
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- 5:11 Or he.
1 Samuel 5:6
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6 Then the Lord’s heavy hand struck the people of Ashdod and the nearby villages with a plague of tumors.[a]
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- 5:6 Greek version and Latin Vulgate read tumors; and rats appeared in their land, and death and destruction were throughout the city.
Ruth 1:13
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13 Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord himself has raised his fist against me.”
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Deuteronomy 2:15
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15 The Lord struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community.
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