TSK
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in WEB.
and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.
Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: because they didn't open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up.
But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai's people.
The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.