Quotes about Adversity
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
- Lamentations 3:5
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
- Lamentations 3:9
He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
- Lamentations 3:11
He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
- Lamentations 3:16
My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
- Lamentations 3:17
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
- Lamentations 3:38
Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
- Lamentations 3:47
You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
- Lamentations 3:60
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
- Lamentations 3:61
the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
- Lamentations 3:62
Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.
- Lamentations 4:19
Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
- Lamentations 5:17