A man with crushed ¹  or severed genitals ²  may not enter the assembly of the Lord. ³ 

One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil. ¹ 

Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; ¹  you have covered us with darkness. ² 

Those who make cloth ¹  will be demoralized; ²  all the hired workers will be depressed. ³ 

My heart is crushed because my dear people ¹  are being crushed. ²  I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay. ³ 

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.” ¹ 

Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven! ¹  May the bones ²  you crushed rejoice! ³ 

I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay ¹  in the streets.

Certainly ¹  my enemies ²  chase me. They smash me into the ground. ³  They force me to live ⁴  in dark regions, ⁵  like those who have been dead for ages.

He will not grow dim or be crushed ¹  before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands ²  will wait in anticipation for his decrees.” ³ 

“King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out.” ¹ 

“‘If you present a grain offering of first ripe grain to the Lord, you must present your grain offering of first ripe grain as soft kernels roasted in fire – crushed bits of fresh grain. ¹ 

King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother ¹  from her position as queen mother ²  because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.

For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; ¹  he has seized a house which he did not build. ² 

or a hunchback, or a dwarf, ¹  or one with a spot in his eye, ²  or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, ³  or a crushed testicle.

I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk ¹  in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.” ² 

As for your sinful thing ¹  that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ²  ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

Their enemies oppressed them; they were subject to their authority. ¹ 

A lying tongue ¹  hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin. ²