Verses with the word hard in the Apocrypha (10 verses):
2 Esdras 14:18
For the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand: for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen.
Wisdom of Solomon 11:4
When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.
Wisdom of Solomon 19:13
And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness, insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behaviour toward strangers.
Sirach 3:21
Seek not out things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.
Sirach 40:15
The children of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches: but are as unclean roots upon a hard rock.
Sirach 48:17
Ezekias fortified his city, and brought in water into the midst thereof: he digged the hard rock with iron, and made wells for waters.
Sirach 51:26
Put your neck under the yoke, and let your soul receive instruction: she is hard at hand to find.
1 Maccabees 3:18
Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company:
1 Maccabees 9:16
But when they of the left wing saw that they of the right wing were discomfited, they followed upon Judas and those that were with him hard at the heels from behind:
2 Maccabees 12:21
Now when Timotheus had knowledge of Judas' coming, he sent the women and children and the other baggage unto a fortress called Carnion: for the town was hard to besiege, and uneasy to come unto, by reason of the straitness of all the places.
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