TSK · 2 Chronicles 10:11

and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”

I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.

“Go and tell Hananiah that the LORD says,‘You have indeed broken the wooden yoke. But you have only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one!

Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

The locusts were not given permission to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and their torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person.