Quotes About Suffering

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.

I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.

My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.

I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.

For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”

“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.