7140	RUT 1:11	But Naomi said, ‘Go back, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Can I still bear sons who might become your husbands?
7142	RUT 1:13	would you wait for them until they were grown up? Would you remain single for them? No, my daughters! My heart grieves for you, for the Lord has sent me adversity.’
7148	RUT 1:19	So they journeyed on until they came to Bethlehem. Their arrival stirred the whole town, and the women said, ‘Can this be Naomi?’
7150	RUT 1:21	I had plenty when I left, but the Lord has brought me back empty handed. Why should you call me Naomi, now that the Lord has afflicted me, and the Almighty has brought misfortune on me?’
7156	RUT 2:5	‘Whose girl is this?’ Boaz asked his servant who had charge of the reapers.
7161	RUT 2:10	Then she bowed low and said to him, ‘Why are you so kind to me, to take interest in me when I am just a foreigner?’
7170	RUT 2:19	‘Where did you glean today, and where did you work?’ asked her mother-in-law. ‘A blessing on him who took notice of you!’ So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. ‘The name of the man with whom I worked today,’ she said, ‘is Boaz.’
7175	RUT 3:1	One day, Naomi said to Ruth, ‘My daughter, should I not seek to secure a home for you where you will be happy and prosperous?
7176	RUT 3:2	Is not Boaz, with whose girls you have been, a relative of ours?
7183	RUT 3:9	‘Who are you?’ he said. ‘I am Ruth your servant,’ she answered, ‘Spread your cloak over your servant, for you are a near relative.’
7190	RUT 3:16	When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, ‘Is it you, my daughter?’ Then Ruth told Naomi all that the man had done for her.
12721	EST 1:15	‘Queen Vashti’, the king said, ‘has failed to obey my royal command – the command of King Ahasuerus conveyed through the eunuchs! What does the law say should be done to her?’
12754	EST 3:3	Then the king’s courtiers, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, ‘Why do you disobey the king’s command?’
12780	EST 4:14	If you persist in remaining silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another quarter, but you and your family will perish. Who knows? Maybe you have been raised to the throne for a time like this!’
12786	EST 5:3	Then the king said to her, ‘What is it, Queen Esther? Whatever your request is, it will be granted, even if it is the half of the kingdom.’
12800	EST 6:3	‘What honour and dignity have been conferred on Mordecai for this?’ the king asked. When the king’s pages who waited on him replied ‘Nothing has been done for him,’
12801	EST 6:4	the king said, ‘Who is in the court?’ Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s house to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
12803	EST 6:6	So Haman entered, and the king said to him, ‘What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honour?’ Haman said to himself, ‘Whom besides me could the king wish to honour?’
12816	EST 7:5	Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, ‘Who is he and where is he whose heart has impelled him to do this?’
12819	EST 7:8	As the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman had flung himself on Esther’s couch. The king cried, ‘Is he going to rape my queen while I am present in my own house?’ As the king spoke these words, the attendants covered Haman’s face
12827	EST 8:6	For how can I bear to look upon the evil that will come to my people? How can I bear to see their destruction?’
12850	EST 9:12	and the king said to Queen Esther, ‘The Jews have slain five hundred people in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It will be granted to you. What is your request? It will be done.’
12872	EST 10:2	All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai to which the king advanced him, are they not recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
13952	PSA 2:3	to snap their bonds and fling their cords away?
13973	PSA 4:3	How long, you proud people, will my honour be stained by the slanders you love, and the lies that you follow? Selah
13996	PSA 6:4	all of me utterly racked. Why do you wait so long, Lord?
13998	PSA 6:6	For in death none can call you to mind; in Sheol who can praise you?
14026	PSA 8:5	what are mortals, that you think of them, humans, that you visit them?
14053	PSA 10:1	Why do you stand, Lord, so far away, hiding yourself in times of trouble?
14065	PSA 10:13	Why do the wicked treat God with contempt, and say in their hearts, ‘God doesn’t care’?
14071	PSA 11:1	In the Lord I take refuge. How can you tell me to flee like a bird to the mountains?
14073	PSA 11:3	In this tearing down of foundations what good can a good person do?’
14082	PSA 12:5	they declare, ‘Our tongue is our strength, our allies our lips: who is lord over us?’
14088	PSA 13:2	How long, Lord, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
14089	PSA 13:3	How long must I nurse grief inside me, and in my heart a daily sorrow? How long are my foes to exult over me?
14096	PSA 14:4	Have they learned their lesson, those workers of evil? Who ate up my people, eating, devouring, never calling to the Lord.
14100	PSA 15:1	Lord, who can be guest in your tent? Who may live on your holy mountain?
14162	PSA 18:32	For who is God but the Lord? And who is a rock but our God?
14194	PSA 19:13	Who can know their flaws? Absolve me from those I know not.
14222	PSA 22:2	My God, my God, why have you left me, my rescue so far from the words of my roaring?
14261	PSA 24:3	Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place?
14266	PSA 24:8	‘Who is the glorious king?’ ‘The Lord strong and heroic, the Lord heroic in battle.’
14268	PSA 24:10	‘Who is the glorious king?’ ‘The Lord, the God of hosts, he is the glorious king.’ Selah
14280	PSA 25:12	Who then is the person who fears the Lord? He will teach them the way to choose.
14303	PSA 27:1	The Lord is my light and my saviour; whom then should I fear? The Lord protects my life; whom then should I dread?
14346	PSA 30:10	‘What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Can you be praised by dust? Can it tell of your faithfulness?
14420	PSA 34:13	Which of you is desirous of life, loves many and happy days?
14440	PSA 35:10	and all my being will say, ‘Who, O Lord, is like you, who save the helpless from those too strong for them, the poor and the helpless from those who despoil them?’
14447	PSA 35:17	How long, Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their roaring, my precious life from the lions.
14542	PSA 39:8	And now, what wait I for, Lord? My hope is in you.
14572	PSA 41:6	My enemies speak of me nothing but evil, ‘When will he die, and his name pass away?’
14583	PSA 42:3	I thirst for God, for my living God. When shall I enter in, and see the face of God?
14584	PSA 42:4	My tears have been my food by day and by night; for they say to me all the day long, ‘Where is your God?’
14586	PSA 42:6	Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
14590	PSA 42:10	I say to God my rock, ‘Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk so sadly, so hard pressed by the foe?’
14591	PSA 42:11	It pierces me to the heart to hear the enemy’s taunts, as all the day long they say to me, ‘Where is your God?’
14592	PSA 42:12	Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
14594	PSA 43:2	For you are God my protector: why have you cast me off? Why must I walk so sadly, so hard pressed by the foe?
14597	PSA 43:5	Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
14619	PSA 44:22	would God not have searched this out? For he knows the heart and its secrets.
14621	PSA 44:24	Rouse yourself, why do you sleep Lord? Awake, cast us not off forever.
14622	PSA 44:25	Why do you hide your face, forgetting our stress and our misery?
14686	PSA 49:7	who put their trust in their wealth, and boast of their boundless riches?
14713	PSA 50:13	Am I such as to eat bulls’ flesh, or drink the blood of goats?
14717	PSA 50:17	while you yourself hate correction, and cast my words behind you?
14747	PSA 52:3	Why glory in mischief, you hero? God’s kindness is all the day.
14760	PSA 53:5	Have they learned their lesson, those workers of evil? Who ate up my people, eating, devouring, never calling to the Lord.
14800	PSA 56:5	In God I maintain my cause, in God I fearlessly trust. What can flesh do to me?
14804	PSA 56:9	You yourself count my wanderings. Put in your bottle my tears are they not in your book?
14807	PSA 56:12	In God I fearlessly trust, what can people do to me?
14823	PSA 58:2	Do you speak what is right, you gods? With equity judge you your people?
14863	PSA 60:12	Have you not spurned us, O God? You do not march forth with our armies.
14878	PSA 62:4	How long will you, all of you, batter a man, as one might a leaning wall?
14905	PSA 64:6	They strengthen their wicked purpose, they tell of the snares they have hidden, they say to themselves, ‘Who can see?’
14969	PSA 68:17	You high-peaked mountains, why look you askance at the mountain which God has desired for his home whereon the Lord will live forever?
14993	PSA 69:5	More than the hairs of my head are those who wantonly hate me. More than my bones in number are those who are falsely my foes. That which I never robbed, how am I then to restore?
15050	PSA 71:19	Your power and your justice, O God, extend as far as the heavens: for great are the things you have done. Who is like you, O God?
15086	PSA 73:11	‘How does God know?’ they say, ‘And has the Most High any knowledge?’
15100	PSA 73:25	Whom have I in the heavens but you? And on earth there is none I desire beside you.
15104	PSA 74:1	Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath against the sheep of your pasture?
15113	PSA 74:10	How long, O God, is the foe to insult? Shall the enemy spurn your name forever?
15114	PSA 74:11	Why, O Lord, do you hold back your hand, why keep your right hand in the folds of your robe?
15145	PSA 76:8	Awful are you: who can stand before you, when once you are angry?
15158	PSA 77:8	‘Will the Lord cast us off forever, will he be gracious no more?
15159	PSA 77:9	Has his love vanished forever? Is his faithfulness utterly gone?
15160	PSA 77:10	Has God forgotten to be gracious, or in anger withheld his compassion?’ Selah
15164	PSA 77:14	Then your way, O God, was majestic: what God was great as our God?
15190	PSA 78:19	‘Is God able,’ such was their challenge, ‘to spread in the desert a table?
15191	PSA 78:20	From the rock that he struck there gushed water, and torrents that overflowed; but can he also give bread, or provide his people with meat?’
15248	PSA 79:5	How long will you be angry, O Lord? Will your jealousy burn like fire forever?
15253	PSA 79:10	Why should the nations say, ‘Where is their God?’ Let revenge for the outpoured blood of your servants be shown on the heathen before our eyes.
15261	PSA 80:5	O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?
15270	PSA 80:14	to be gnawed by the boar from the forest, and devoured by the beasts of the field?
15295	PSA 82:2	‘How long will you crookedly judge, and favour the wicked? Selah
15339	PSA 85:6	Will you cherish your anger against us forever, prolonging your wrath to all generations?
15340	PSA 85:7	Will you not revive us again, that your people may be glad in you?
15382	PSA 88:11	For the dead can you work wonders? Can the shades rise again to praise you? Selah
15383	PSA 88:12	Can your kindness be told in the grave, your faithfulness in the tomb?
15384	PSA 88:13	Can your wonders be known in the darkness, or your help in the land of forgetfulness?
15386	PSA 88:15	Why, O Lord, do you spurn me, and hide your face from me?