Quotes about Suffering
All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
— Lamentations 1:11
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
— Lamentations 1:12
The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
— Lamentations 1:18
See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
— Lamentations 1:20
Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.
— Lamentations 1:22
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
— Lamentations 2:20
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
— Lamentations 3:1
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
— Lamentations 3:2
Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
— Lamentations 3:3
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
— Lamentations 3:4
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
— Lamentations 3:6
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
— Lamentations 3:7