Quotes about Struggle
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
— Isaiah 59:8
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
— Isaiah 59:9
Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
— Isaiah 59:10
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
— Isaiah 59:11
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
— Isaiah 63:10
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
— Jeremiah 2:14
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
— Jeremiah 8:15
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
— Jeremiah 12:1
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
— Jeremiah 12:5
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
— Jeremiah 14:5
Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
— Jeremiah 14:19
Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
— Jeremiah 15:18