Quotes about Suffering
He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
— Deuteronomy 28:60
They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
— Joshua 9:5
Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
— Judges 16:21
“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
— Ruth 1:20
I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
— Ruth 1:21
And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.
— 1 Samuel 1:7
“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.
— 1 Samuel 1:15
Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”
— 1 Samuel 1:16
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
— 1 Samuel 2:5
Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
— 1 Samuel 5:12
Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’
— 2 Samuel 1:9
David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
— 2 Samuel 12:16