Quotes About Struggle

As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.

Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?

By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.

Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,

as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.

This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.

Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.

to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.

I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ëLie down, so we can walk over you,í so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.

Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.

Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”

We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.