Ezra 4:1
When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,

Psalm 120:1
In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.

Psalm 121:1
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?

Psalm 122:1
I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD."

Psalm 123:1
I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

Psalm 124:1
If the LORD had not been on our side--let Israel now declare--

Psalm 125:1
Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.

Psalm 126:1
When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.

Psalm 127:1
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.

Psalm 128:1
Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!

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Exodus 1:12-14, 22
But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. . . .

Exodus 5:7-19
"You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw. . . .

Judges 2:15
Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So they were greatly distressed.

Judges 10:8-12
who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites. . . .

1 Samuel 13:19
And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, "The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears."

Lamentations 1:3
Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

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Jeremiah 2:2
"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Ezekiel 23:3
and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

Hosea 2:15
There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

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Psalm 124:1
If the LORD had not been on our side--let Israel now declare--