Quotes About Suffering

Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.

They had taken captive the women and all who were there, both young and old. They had not killed anyone, but had carried them off as they went on their way.

Then he begged me, ëStand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.í

May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”

This is what the LORD says: ëI will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.

After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriahís wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

On the seventh day the child died. But Davidís servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”

David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ëWho knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.í

But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.

“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.

Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”

So Amnonís attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the kingís virgin daughters wore.

Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.

Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.

Then Mephibosheth, Saulís grandson, went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet or trimmed his mustache or washed his clothes from the day the king had left until the day he returned safely.

They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.

So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.í”

and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”

At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,