Quotes About Struggle

The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!

And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonahís head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.

Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.

This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:

You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.

Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.

On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured.

The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”

For I have come to turn ëa man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

A manís enemies will be the members of his own household.í

From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subject to violence, and the violent lay claim to it.

But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.

When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

but the boat was already far from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.