Quotes About Struggle

I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me.

Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.

They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken Your precepts.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,

when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,

then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,

then the raging waters would have swept us away.

A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare—

many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

A song of ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,

Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.

Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.

The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.