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Quotes About Suffering

They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
~ Psalm 79:2
How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
~ Psalm 79:5
for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
~ Psalm 79:7
Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
~ Psalm 79:8
Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
~ Psalm 79:10
Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
~ Psalm 79:12
O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
~ Psalm 80:4
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
~ Psalm 80:5
Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?
~ Psalm 80:12
Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
~ Psalm 80:16
For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
~ Psalm 88:3
I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
~ Psalm 88:4
You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
~ Psalm 88:6
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
~ Psalm 88:7
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
~ Psalm 88:8
My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
~ Psalm 88:9
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
~ Psalm 88:15
Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
~ Psalm 88:16
All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
~ Psalm 88:17
Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
~ Psalm 89:38
All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
~ Psalm 89:41
You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
~ Psalm 89:45
How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
~ Psalm 89:46
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
~ Psalm 89:50