46 Bible Verses about Monotony

And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food? Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste: But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.

And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land: And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.

And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

For they said to me, Make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has come to him.

And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place. Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land. And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.

So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.

Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee;

Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled; They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement; This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me: The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

And there was a woman who had had a disease for eighteen years; she was bent, and was not able to make herself straight.

One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.

For at his word comes up the storm-wind, lifting high the waves. The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.

For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

But when the fourteenth day came, while we were going here and there in the Adriatic sea, about the middle of the night the sailors had an idea that they were getting near land;

And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

And when the sixth hour had come, it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

And in the same country there were keepers of sheep in the fields, watching over their flock by night.

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life. Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food; With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false; And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching.

Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.

When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

Then the king went to his great house, and took no food that night, and no ... were placed before him, and his sleep went from him.

Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.