Quotes About Suffering

You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,

All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?

For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.

For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a womanís stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.

the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!