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Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?
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Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,“ A son is born to you,” making him very glad.Let that man be like the cities that the Lord overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?
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Numbers 11:15
If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”
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Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
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Malachi 3:14
You have said,‘ It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
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Jeremiah 20:7-9
O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me.For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout,“ Violence and destruction!” For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.If I say,“ I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.
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Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
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Psalms 143:2
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
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Psalms 130:3
If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
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Exodus 17:4
So Moses cried to the Lord,“ What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
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Lamentations 3:39-40
Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
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Job 10:2
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
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Exodus 5:22
Then Moses turned to the Lord and said,“ O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me?
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Lamentations 3:22-23
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
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2 Corinthians 11 28
And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.