Quotes about Suffering
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
How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
- Habakkuk 1:2
Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
- Habakkuk 1:3
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
- Habakkuk 3:17
News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed—and He healed them.
- Matthew 4:24
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 5:10
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
- Matthew 5:11
“Lord, my servant lies at home, paralyzed and in terrible agony.”
- Matthew 8:6