Quotes about Suffering
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
— Genesis 3:16
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
— Genesis 3:18
But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
— Genesis 4:13
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
— Genesis 15:13
“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
— Genesis 16:6
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
— Genesis 31:40
For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
— Genesis 40:15
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!”
— Genesis 42:36
They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
— Exodus 1:13
and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
— Exodus 1:14
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
— Exodus 3:7
They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.
— Exodus 8:14