Quotes About Struggle

The arrogant rise against me, O God; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, with no regard for You.

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.

You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.

You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.

All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.

He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,

He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

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

Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

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

They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.

They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.

When they are decreased and humbled by oppression, evil, and sorrow,

Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

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