Psalms 8:2 You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man. (BBE)
Psalms 10:2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention. (BBE)
Psalms 22:21 Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen. (BBE)
Psalms 25:19 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Psalms 42:10 The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God? (BBE)
Psalms 44:24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate? (BBE)
Psalms 55:3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me. (BBE)
Psalms 55:11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets. (BBE)
Psalms 55:23 But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you. (BBE)
Psalms 56:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me. (BBE)
Psalms 58:2 The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth. (BBE)
Psalms 59:1 <To the chief music-maker; put to At-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When Saul sent, and they were watching the house, to put him to death.> Take me out of the hands of the cruel ones, O my God; keep me safe from those who come up against me. (BBE)
Psalms 69:26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you. (BBE)
Psalms 71:4 Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Psalms 73:8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts. (BBE)
Psalms 74:10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever? (BBE)
Psalms 74:18 Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour. (BBE)
Psalms 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. (Root in KJV BBE WBS)
Psalms 88:16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. (BBE)
Psalms 109:16 Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted. (BBE)
Psalms 119:134 Make me free from the cruel rule of man; then I will keep your orders. (BBE)
Psalms 119:161 <SHIN> Rulers have been cruel to me without cause; but I have the fear of your word in my heart. (BBE)
Psalms 144:11 Make me free, and take me out of the hands of strange men, in whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit. (See RSV)
Proverbs 5:9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Proverbs 11:17 The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 17:11 An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Proverbs 22:16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need. (BBE)
Proverbs 22:22 Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge: (BBE)
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 28:3 A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food. (BBE)
Proverbs 28:16 The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life. (BBE RSV)
Ecclesiastes 4:1 And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 7:7 The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart. (BBE)
Ecclesiastes 9:12 Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them. (See NIV)
Song of Songs 8:6 Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Isaiah 1:17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow. (BBE)
Isaiah 9:4 For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian. (BBE)
Isaiah 10:1 Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts: (BBE)
Isaiah 11:4 But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer. (BBE)
Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Isaiah 13:11 And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel. (BBE)
Isaiah 13:18 In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body. (BBE)
Isaiah 14:3 And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you, (See NIV)
Isaiah 14:4 That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off; (BBE)
Isaiah 16:4 Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land. (BBE)
Isaiah 19:4 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Isaiah 19:20 And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free. (BBE)
Isaiah 25:3 For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you. (BBE)
Isaiah 25:4 For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm. (BBE)
Isaiah 28:2 See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them. (BBE)
Isaiah 29:5 And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about. (BBE)
Isaiah 29:20 For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off: (BBE)
Isaiah 33:19 Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you. (BBE)
Isaiah 35:9 No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price, (BBE)
Isaiah 47:6 I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old; (BBE)
Isaiah 49:24 Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go? (BBE)
Isaiah 49:25 But the Lord says, Even the prisoners of the strong will be taken from him, and the cruel made to let go his goods: for I will take up your cause against your haters, and I will keep your children safe. (BBE)
Isaiah 51:13 And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one? (BBE)
Isaiah 51:23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over. (BBE)
Isaiah 52:4 For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause. (BBE)
Isaiah 59:15 Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause. (BBE)
Isaiah 60:14 And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. (BBE)
Jeremiah 6:6 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways. (BBE)
Jeremiah 6:7 As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds. (BBE)
Jeremiah 6:23 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 7:6 If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves: (BBE)
Jeremiah 10:19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it. (BBE)
Jeremiah 12:9 My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction. (BBE)
Jeremiah 15:21 I will keep you safe from the hands of the evil-doers, and I will give you salvation from the hands of the cruel ones. (BBE NIV)
Jeremiah 19:9 I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life. (BBE)
Jeremiah 21:12 O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings. (BBE)
Jeremiah 22:3 This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place. (BBE)
Jeremiah 22:17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts. (BBE)
Jeremiah 25:38 The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath. (BBE)
Jeremiah 30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 30:20 And their children will be as they were in the old days, and the meeting of the people will have its place before me, and I will send punishment on all who are cruel to them. (BBE)
Jeremiah 46:16 ... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword. (BBE)
Jeremiah 50:16 Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land. (BBE)
Jeremiah 50:42 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 4:3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS)
Ezekiel 22:7 In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow. (BBE)
Ezekiel 30:4 And a sword will come on Egypt, and cruel pain will be in Ethiopia, when they are falling by the sword in Egypt; and they will take away her wealth and her bases will be broken down. (BBE)
Ezekiel 39:4 On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food. (BBE)
Ezekiel 45:8 And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes. (BBE)
Daniel 2:15 He made answer and said to Arioch, O captain of the king, why is the king's order so cruel? Then Arioch gave Daniel an account of the business. (BBE)
Hosea 13:7 So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road; (BBE)
Obadiah 1:10 Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever. (BBE)
Micah 2:2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage. (BBE)
Micah 6:12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth. (BBE)
Habakkuk 1:8 And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food. (BBE)
Habakkuk 2:5 A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself. (BBE)
Zephaniah 3:1 Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town! (BBE)
Zechariah 9:8 And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble. (BBE)