Verses with the word strait in the Apocrypha (6 verses):
1 Esdras 5:72
But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building;
2 Esdras 7:14
If then they that live labour not to enter these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
2 Esdras 7:18
Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: for they that have done wickedly have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.
2 Esdras 7:21
For God hath given strait commandment to such as came, what they should do to live, even as they came, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
Judith 3:9
Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea, over against the great strait of Judea.
1 Maccabees 13:49
They also of the tower in Jerusalem were kept so strait, that they could neither come forth, nor go into the country, nor buy, nor sell: wherefore they were in great distress for want of victuals, and a great number of them perished through famine.
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