Quotes about Suffering
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
— Jeremiah 20:17
Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?
— Jeremiah 30:6
For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
— Jeremiah 30:12
There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
— Jeremiah 30:13
Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you.
— Jeremiah 30:15
The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
— Jeremiah 37:15
All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”
— Jeremiah 38:23
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
— Jeremiah 39:7
But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
— Jeremiah 44:18
For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.
— Jeremiah 48:37
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.
— Jeremiah 52:11
Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.
— Lamentations 1:5