Today is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger; for the pangs have come upon the travailing [woman], but she has not the strength to bring forth.

And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This day [is] a day of tribulation and rebuke and provocation; for the children have come to the birth, but the mother has no strength.

Pains as of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is your wise son, because he shall not stay in the destruction of [your] children.

And Moses turned to the Lord and said, I pray, O Lord, why have You afflicted this people? And why have You sent me?

For from the time that I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has afflicted this people, and You have not delivered Your people.

And Joshua said, I pray, O Lord, why has Your servant brought this people over the Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us? If only we would had remained, and settled ourselves beyond the Jordan!

And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round about and destroy us from off the land: and what will You do [for] Your great name?

And Saul said, No man shall die this day, for today the Lord has wrought deliverance in Israel.

And the people said to Saul, Shall he that has accomplished this great salvation in Israel be put to death this day? [As] the Lord lives, there shall not fall to the ground one of the hairs of his head; for the people of God have done good this day. And the people prayed for Jonathan in that day, and he died not.

because of the enemies of Your hand. O Lord, destroy them from the earth; scatter them in their life, though their belly has been filled with Your hidden [treasures]; they have been satisfied with uncleanness, and have left the remnant [of their possessions] to their babes.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies [under the sway] of the evil [one].