Quotes about Suffering
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
— Ezekiel 5:10
While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”
— Ezekiel 9:8
But you, son of man, groan! Groan before their eyes with a broken heart and bitter grief.
— Ezekiel 21:6
They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.
— Ezekiel 27:30
The young men of On and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword, and those cities will go into captivity.
— Ezekiel 30:17
The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
— Hosea 9:2
How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
— Joel 1:18
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
— Joel 2:25
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
— Jonah 2:5
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
— Jonah 4:3
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
— Jonah 4:8
You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
— Micah 2:9