Quotes about Suffering
They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
- Psalm 79:2
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
- Psalm 79:3
May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
- Psalm 79:11
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- Psalm 80:5
I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
- Psalm 88:4
You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
- Psalm 88:6
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
- Psalm 88:7
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- Psalm 88:8
Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- Psalm 88:14
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
- Psalm 88:15
Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
- Psalm 88:16
All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
- Psalm 88:17