Quotes about Suffering
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
— Lamentations 3:54
You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
— Lamentations 3:59
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
— Lamentations 4:3
The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
— Lamentations 4:4
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
— Lamentations 4:8
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
— Lamentations 4:9
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
— Lamentations 4:10
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
— Lamentations 5:10
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
— Lamentations 5:11
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
— Lamentations 5:15
Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
— Lamentations 5:17
So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
— Ezekiel 4:17