Quotes About Endurance

In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.

though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.

You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?

He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.

But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.

You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.

Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

But I will always hope and will praise You more and more.

My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.