Quotes About Suffering

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?

They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.

They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.

All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

to hear a prisonerís groaning, to release those condemned to death,

He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

He sent a man before them—Joseph, sold as a slave.

They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,

He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.

So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.

When they are decreased and humbled by oppression, evil, and sorrow,

They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.