Quotes about Struggle
The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
- Exodus 5:19
“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”
- Exodus 5:21
So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me?
- Exodus 5:22
So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.
- Exodus 7:24
The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.
- Exodus 8:18
The magicians could not stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the Egyptians.
- Exodus 9:11
He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!”
- Exodus 14:25
And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is why it was named Marah.)
- Exodus 15:23
So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
- Exodus 17:2
Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”
- Exodus 17:4
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- Exodus 17:7
Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
- Leviticus 24:10