Quotes About Suffering

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.

Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.

Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.í

ëAfter that,í declares the LORD, ëI will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.í

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”

And I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten.”

And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëDrink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.í

Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.

The peaceful meadows have been silenced because of the LORDís burning anger.

Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ëMay the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!í

For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.

There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.

All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.

Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ëThe fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.í

Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.

So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.

Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the kingís son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”