Quotes About Perseverance

For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.

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

In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

He will drink from the brook by the road; therefore He will lift up His head.

They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

I will keep Your statutes; do not utterly forsake me.

Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.

Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.

Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken Your precepts.

The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.

I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.

The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; when you run, you will not stumble.

Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.