Quotes about Adversity
The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.
- Psalm 119:95
I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.
- Psalm 119:121
I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.
- Psalm 119:141
Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.
- Psalm 119:157
if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
- Psalm 124:2
when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
- Psalm 124:3
many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
- Psalm 129:2
The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
- Psalm 129:3
Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
- Psalm 142:3
For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
- Psalm 143:3
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
- Proverbs 6:11
All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
- Proverbs 15:15