Quotes about Struggle
He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
— Jeremiah 17:6
You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
— Jeremiah 20:7
If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
— Jeremiah 20:9
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
— Jeremiah 20:17
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
— Jeremiah 20:18
And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.
— Jeremiah 21:5
There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
— Jeremiah 30:13
You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”
— Jeremiah 45:3
Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.
— Jeremiah 46:15
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
— Jeremiah 51:34
For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
— Lamentations 1:16
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
— Lamentations 1:19