Quotes About Struggle

Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

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

For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.

I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.

For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”

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

I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.

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

“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemyís oppression?”

For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemyís oppression?

But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

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

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.

Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.