Quotes about Adversity
The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,
- Deuteronomy 28:28
and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
- Deuteronomy 28:29
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
- Deuteronomy 28:31
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
- Deuteronomy 28:33
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
- Deuteronomy 28:38
You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.
- Deuteronomy 28:39
you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:48
The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,
- Deuteronomy 28:54
Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
- Deuteronomy 28:65
I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
- Deuteronomy 32:23
Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.
- Joshua 8:15
So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”
- Judges 2:3