Quotes about Suffering
The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,
— Deuteronomy 28:28
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
— Deuteronomy 28:31
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
— Deuteronomy 28:33
The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
— Deuteronomy 28:35
You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
— Deuteronomy 28:39
You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
— Deuteronomy 28:40
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
— Deuteronomy 28:41
you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
— Deuteronomy 28:48
Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
— Deuteronomy 28:53
The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
— Deuteronomy 28:54
refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.
— Deuteronomy 28:55
The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
— Deuteronomy 28:56