The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and scabies, all of which cannot be healed.

I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt down when I intervened in their land. ¹  Then I brought you out.

The people ¹  who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

But now the same thing ¹  comes to you, and you are discouraged; ²  it strikes you, and you are terrified. ³ 

He drove his enemies back; he made them a permanent target for insults. ¹ 

Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow, ¹  so is the one who testifies against ²  his neighbor as a false witness. ³ 

The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation ¹  with the Lord who commands armies.

Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; ¹  let him have his fill of insults.

You too will act like drunkards; ¹  you will go into hiding; ²  you too will seek refuge from the enemy.

Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

They ¹  came up to him again and again ²  and said, “Hail, king of the Jews!” ³  And they struck him repeatedly ⁴  in the face.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people. ¹ 

So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.

Moses and Aaron did so, ¹  just as the Lord had commanded. Moses raised ²  the staff ³  and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes ⁴  of Pharaoh and his servants, ⁵  and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood. ⁶ 

David reached his hand into the bag and took out a stone. He slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank deeply into his forehead, and he fell down with his face to the ground.

For the Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory ¹  he has sent me to the nations that plundered you – for anyone who touches you touches the pupil ²  of his ³  eye.

Suppose he goes with someone else ¹  to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax ²  to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose ³  from the handle and strikes ⁴  his fellow worker ⁵  so hard that he dies. The person responsible ⁶  may then flee to one of these cities to save himself. ⁷ 

The king gave another order, ¹  and those men who had maliciously accused ²  Daniel were brought and thrown ³  into the lions’ den – they, their children, and their wives. ⁴  They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, ¹  for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.