Quotes About Faith

when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,

when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.

I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.í

They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.

You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.