Quotes About Struggle

He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.

He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

All our enemies open their mouths against us.

Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.

My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.