Quotes about Grievous

Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”

For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.

Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!

Overall, then, fasting is how Israel responded when God's glory was dishonored, when God's will was thwarted, when God's people suffered defeat, or when one of God's people experienced sickness, tragedy, or death. God's people, in effect then, took up the posture of God toward grievous events when they fasted.

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed, Against thy Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, And are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable.

Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God.