48 Bible Verses about Monotony

Contemptible people among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites cried again and said, “Who will feed us meat? We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”

The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger!”

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for 40 years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness.

When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!”

They said to me, ‘Make us a god who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’

They told Aaron:

Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

Some wandered in the desolate wilderness,
finding no way to a city where they could live.
They were hungry and thirsty;
their spirits failed within them.

“We then set out from Horeb and went across all the great and terrible wilderness you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the Lord our God had commanded us. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

Youths may faint and grow weary,
and young men stumble and fall,

Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness 40 days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels began to serve Him.

Others sat in darkness and gloom—
prisoners in cruel chains—

The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.

You lured us into a trap;
You placed burdens on our backs.

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

When He heard that John had been arrested, He withdrew into Galilee.

Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will have affliction for 10 days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Fools suffered affliction
because of their rebellious ways and their sins.
They loathed all food
and came near the gates of death.

if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you—wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

Now my life is poured out before my eyes,
and days of suffering have seized me.
Night pierces my bones,
but my gnawing pains never rest.

my whole being is shaken with terror.
And You, Lord—how long?

a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for over 18 years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.

One man was there who had been sick for 38 years.

He spoke and raised a tempest
that stirred up the waves of the sea.
Rising up to the sky, sinking down to the depths,
their courage melting away in anguish,

You threw me into the depths,
into the heart of the seas,
and the current overcame me.
All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.

When the fourteenth night came, we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, and in the middle of the night the sailors thought they were approaching land.

For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing me to the ground,
making me live in darkness
like those long dead.

So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.

I wait for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning—
more than watchmen for the morning.

When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

In the same region, shepherds were staying out in the fields and keeping watch at night over their flock.

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.
It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

Like a slave he longs for shade;
like a hired man he waits for his pay.

So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.

I know your works, your labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil. You have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you have found them to be liars. You also possess endurance and have tolerated many things because of My name and have not grown weary.

So there was a great famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 80 silver shekels, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five silver shekels.

The city was under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out; and their cry for help ascended to God because of the difficult labor.

All who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters to be worthy of all respect, so that God’s name and His teaching will not be blasphemed.

Household slaves, submit with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.

When I lie down I think:
When will I get up?
But the evening drags on endlessly,
and I toss and turn until dawn.

Night pierces my bones,
but my gnawing pains never rest.

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No diversions were brought to him, and he could not sleep.

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won’t grow weary and lose heart.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin,
and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.

An endless dripping on a rainy day
and a nagging wife are alike.

Is bland food eaten without salt?
Is there flavor in an egg white?

Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.