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and took possession of his cities. He pressed on to Ecbatana and took its towers, sacked its marketplaces, and turned its glory into shame. (Judith 1, 14)
We are bowed down to the ground; our bodies are pressed to the earth. (Psalms 44, 26)
I was hard pressed and falling, but the LORD came to my help. (Psalms 118, 13)
they and their sons, their wives and their cattle, because misfortunes pressed so hard on them. (1 Maccabees 2, 30)
He pressed the battle hard until sunset, and Demetrius fell that day. (1 Maccabees 10, 50)
and the time of the battle in Babylonia against the Galatians, when only eight thousand Jews fought along with four thousand Macedonians; yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand routed one hundred and twenty thousand and took a great quantity of booty, because of the help they received from Heaven. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
Judas pressed the pursuit vigorously, putting the sinners to the sword and destroying as many as thirty thousand men. (2 Maccabees 12, 23)
When you have informed yourself in detail on these matters, O king, act in the interest of our country and its hard-pressed people with the same gracious consideration that you show toward all. (2 Maccabees 14, 9)
He shall pass through it hard-pressed and hungry, and in his hunger he shall become enraged, and curse his king and his gods. He shall look upward, but there shall be strict darkness without any dawn; (Isaiah 14, 21)
They hatch adders' eggs, and weave spiders' webs: Whoever eats their eggs will die, if one of them is pressed, it will hatch as a viper; (Isaiah 59, 5)
Thus says the LORD: When the juice is pressed from grapes, men say, "Do not discard them, for there is still good in them"; Thus will I do with my servants: I will not discard them all; (Isaiah 65, 8)
He has broken my teeth with gravel, pressed my face in the dust; (Lamentations 3, 16)
