48 Bible Verses about Monotony

And the rascal people that was among them fell a lusting. And the children of Israel also went to, and wept, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish which we should eat in Egypt for nought, and of the cucumbers and melons, leeks, onions and garlic. But now our souls are dried away, for our eyes look on nothing else, save upon Manna."

And the whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and said unto them, "Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and ate bread our bellies' full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole multitude for hunger."

And your children shall wander in this wilderness forty years and suffer for your whoredom until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness,

And when the people saw that it was long or Moses came down out of the mountain, they gathered themselves together and came unto Aaron and said unto him, "Up, and make us a god to go before us: for of this Moses, the fellow that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become."

They said unto me, 'Make us a god to go before us, for we wot not what is become of Moses, the fellow that brought us out of the land of Egypt.'

saying unto Aaron, 'Make us gods to go before us. For we know not what is become of this Moses that brought us out of the land of Egypt.'

They went astray in the wilderness in an untrodden way, and found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

And then we departed from Horeb and walked through all that great and terrible wilderness, as ye have seen along by the way that leadeth unto the hills of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us, and came to Kadesh Barnea.

Children are weary and faint, and the strongest men fall:

And immediately the spirit drove him into a wilderness: and he was there in the wilderness forty days, and was tempted of Satan, and was with wild beasts. And the angels ministered unto him.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being fast bound in misery and iron,

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes; and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters. And he was made to grind in the prison house.

Thou hast brought us into captivity, and laid trouble upon our loins.

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that dwelt in the fore entry of the prison. And they let down Jeremiah with cords into a dungeon, where there was no water, but mire.

When Jesus had heard that John was taken, he departed into Galilee;

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast of you into prison, to tempt you, and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto the death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Foolish men were plagued for their offense, and because of their wickedness. Their soul abhorred all manner of meat, and they were even hard at death's door.

or if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but shall break mine covenant: then I will do this again unto you: I will visit you with vexations, swelling, and fevers, that shall make your eyes dazzle; and with sorrows of heart. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Therefore is my mind poured full of heaviness, and the days of trouble have taken hold upon me. My bones are pierced through in the night season, and my sinews take no rest.

My soul also is sore troubled; but LORD, how long wilt thou punish me?

And behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years: and was bowed together, and could not lift up herself at all.

And a certain man was there, which had been diseased thirty eight years.

For at his word, the stormy wind ariseth, and lifteth up the waves thereof. They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep; their soul melteth away in the trouble.

For thou hadst cast me down deep in the midst of the sea; and the flood compassed me about: and all thy waves and rolls of water went over me.

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were carried in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that there appeared some country unto them,

For the enemy persecuteth my soul; he smiteth my life down to the ground; he layeth me in the darkness, as the dead men of the world.

And Moses stretched forth his hand unto heaven, and there was a dark mist upon all the land of Egypt three days long,

My soul fleeth unto the LORD before the morning watch, I say, before the morning watch.

And when the sixth hour was come, darkness arose over all the earth, until the ninth hour.

And there were in the same region shepherds abiding in the field, and watching their flock by night.

And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life: and it shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee. And thou shalt eat the herbs of the field: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."

For like as a bond servant desireth the shadow, and as a hireling would fain have an end of his work:

Let us not be weary of well doing. For when the time is come we shall reap without weariness.

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not forbear them which are evil: and examinedst them which say they are apostles, and are not: and hast found them liars. And didst wash thyself, and hast patience: and for my name's sake hast laboured and hast not fainted.

And there arose great dearth in Samaria: for they had besieged it, until an ass's head was worth four score sicles of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of doves' dung worth five sicles.

And the city continued besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

Then answered Rabshakeh, "Think ye, that the king sent me to speak this only unto you? Hath he not sent me to them also, that lie upon the wall? That they be not compelled to eat their own dung, and drink their own stale with you?"

And it chanced, in process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried.

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God, and his doctrine be not evil spoken of.

Servants obey your masters with all fear, not only if they be good and courteous: but also though they be froward.

When I laid me down to sleep, I said, 'O when shall I rise?' Again, I longed sore for the night. Thus am I full of sorrow, till it be dark.

My bones are pierced through in the night season, and my sinews take no rest.

So the king went in to his palace, and kept him sober all night, so that there was no table spread before him, neither could he take any sleep.

Consider therefore how that he endured such speaking against him of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds.

An indiscreet son is the heaviness of his father; and a brawling wife is like the top of a house, wherethrough it is ever dropping.

A brawling woman and the roof of the house dropping in a rainy day, may well be compared together.

That which is unsavory, shalt it be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.