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Quotes About Suffering

In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
~ Psalm 109:4
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
~ Psalm 109:9
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
~ Psalm 109:10
May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
~ Psalm 109:12
For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.
~ Psalm 109:16
The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
~ Psalm 109:17
The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
~ Psalm 109:18
For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.
~ Psalm 109:22
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
~ Psalm 109:24
I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
~ Psalm 109:25
The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
~ Psalm 112:10
The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
~ Psalm 116:3
I believed, therefore I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”
~ Psalm 116:10
I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
~ Psalm 119:75
All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!
~ Psalm 119:86
Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
~ Psalm 123:3
Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
~ Psalm 126:5
The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
~ Psalm 129:3
O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.
~ Psalm 130:2
Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
~ Psalm 137:7
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
~ Psalm 137:8
Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
~ Psalm 137:9
May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
~ Psalm 140:9
May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.
~ Psalm 140:10