Quotes About Despair

a mournful of stained, crooked teem,

Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.

Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes,

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

When one of them was gone, I said: “Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since.

Then a great cry will go out over all the land of Egypt. Such an outcry has never been heard before and will never be heard again.

Did we not say to you in Egypt, ëLeave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptiansí? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

“If only we had died by the LORDís hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.

He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!