Quotes about Suffering

But if you will not let My people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even the ground where they stand will be full of flies.

A diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’

You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

He is to have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause her bitter suffering.

When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.

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.”

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.

The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.