Quotes about Suffering
What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
— Isaiah 38:15
These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
— Isaiah 47:9
I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
— Isaiah 50:6
These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?
— Isaiah 51:19
Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.
— Isaiah 51:21
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
— Isaiah 51:23
Just as many were appalled at Him—His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—
— Isaiah 52:14
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
— Isaiah 53:3
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
— Isaiah 53:4
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
— Isaiah 53:5
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
— Isaiah 53:7
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
— Isaiah 53:9