Quotes about Suffering
Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
- Lamentations 3:30
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
- Lamentations 3:43
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 3:48
My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
- Lamentations 3:49
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- Lamentations 3:53
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