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Quotes About Suffering

You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.
~ Psalm 69:19
Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
~ Psalm 69:20
They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
~ Psalm 69:21
May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.
~ Psalm 69:23
Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.
~ Psalm 69:24
May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
~ Psalm 69:25
For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
~ Psalm 69:26
They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
~ Psalm 73:8
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
~ Psalm 73:13
For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
~ Psalm 73:14
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
~ Psalm 73:18
A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
~ Psalm 74:1
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
~ Psalm 74:7
They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
~ Psalm 74:8
Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
~ Psalm 74:19
So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
~ Psalm 77:10
But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
~ Psalm 78:17
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
~ Psalm 78:40
Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
~ Psalm 78:41
He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
~ Psalm 78:44
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
~ Psalm 78:45
He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
~ Psalm 78:46
He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
~ Psalm 78:50
He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
~ Psalm 78:51