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Letter "C" » cursing
«It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.»
«As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.»
«I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live (Deuteronomy 30:19)»
«His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.»
«For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.»
«For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: / But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.»
«CURSE, v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operation which in literature, particularly in the drama, is commonly fatal to the victim. Nevertheless, the liability to a cursing is a risk that cuts but a small figure in fixing the rates of life insurance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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belabor, cursing, cuts, cut rate, energetically, fixing, insurance, liabilities, liability, nevertheless, rates, slap, The Victim, verbal
«And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: / And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: / And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: / And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: / But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: / Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; / And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.»
Author: Bible
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cursing, defiled, earthen, holy water, memorial, Oath of, set aside, swelled head, uncleanness, uncover
«As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.»
«Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.»
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