Quotes about Adversity

He also killed an Egyptian, a huge man five cubits tall. Although the Egyptian had a spear like a weaver’s beam in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club, snatched the spear from his hand, and killed the Egyptian with his own spear.

Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.

together with all the details of his reign, his might, and the circumstances that came upon him and Israel and all the kingdoms of the lands.

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession that You gave us as an inheritance.

On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.

before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.

Four times they sent me the same message, and each time I gave the same reply.

The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter