48 Bible Verses about Monotony

Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at."

And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, "Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."

For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

saying to Aaron, 'Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in; hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.

"Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;

The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.

You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs;

So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction; they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.

if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

"And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me. The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O LORD--how long?

And there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.

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

For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea. They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight;

For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.

When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.

For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

"'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.

And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

But the Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?"

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.

When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.

The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.

Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.