Exodus 17:4
4So Moses cried to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready ato stone me.”Numbers 11:15
15If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”Deuteronomy 1:12
12 bHow can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?Jeremiah 15:10
Jeremiah’s Complaint
10 cWoe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! dI have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.Jeremiah 15:18
18Why is my pain unceasing,emy wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Will you be to me flike a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail?
Jeremiah 20:7-9
7 O Lord, gyou have deceived me,and I was deceived;
hyou are stronger than I,
and you have prevailed.
iI have become a laughingstock all the day;
everyone mocks me.
8For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I shout, j“Violence and destruction!”
For kthe word of the Lord has become for me
la reproach and mderision all day long.
9If I say, “I will not mention him,
or speak any more in his name,”
nthere is in my heart as it were a burning fire
shut up in my bones,
and oI am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
14 pCursed be the dayon which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!
15Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
qmaking him very glad.
16Let that man be like rthe cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
slet him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,
17 tbecause he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great.
18 uWhy did I come out from the womb
vto see toil and sorrow,
and spend my days in shame?
Malachi 3:14
14You have said, w‘It is vain to serve God. xWhat is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
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