Quotes About Suffering

He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

All our enemies open their mouths against us.

Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.

Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!

You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.

O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!