Quotes about Suffering
Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
— Psalm 123:3
The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
— Psalm 129:3
He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.
— Proverbs 11:15
“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
— Proverbs 23:35
When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
— Proverbs 29:2
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives light to the eyes of both.
— Proverbs 29:13
there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
— Proverbs 30:14
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
— Ecclesiastes 4:1
Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
— Isaiah 1:5
From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.
— Isaiah 1:6
Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.
— Isaiah 3:25
Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
— Isaiah 8:22