Quotes About Struggle

The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaohís taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?”

So the Israelite foremen went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?

No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ëMake bricks!í Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”

Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”

The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.

So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me?

Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You have not delivered Your people in any way.”

Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.

But in the LORDís presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”

The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.

But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,

Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.

For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ëThey are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.í

So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his army with him.

They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)

And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.

As long as Moses held up his hands, Israel prevailed; but when he lowered them, Amalek prevailed.

“Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against Amalek from generation to generation.”

along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”