48 Bible Verses about Self Pity

And the sons of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full, for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this who

And when Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they were very afraid. And the sons of Israel cried out to LORD, and they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

And the people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why have thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?

And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly. And the sons of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish which we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic, but now our soul is dried away. There is nothing at all except this manna to look upon.

And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. And the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt, or would that we had died in this wilderness! And why does LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey. Were it not better for us to return into Egypt?read more.
And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of LORD your God. And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven, and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

And ye should not grumble as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happened to those men for examples, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the ends of the ages came.

Then Job answered and said, O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash.read more.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me. Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or the ox moo over his fodder? Can that which has no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? My soul refuses to touch [them]. They are as loathsome food to me. O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for! Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! And be it still my consolation, yea, let me exult (in pain that does not spare), that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient? Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass? Is it not that I have no help in me, and that wisdom is driven quite from me?

My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job answered and said, Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.read more.
Let that day be darkness. Let not God from above seek for it, nor let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it. As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. Lo, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come in it. Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, nor let it behold the eyelids of the morning. Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me? Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves, or with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there. And the servant is free from his master. Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures, who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave? [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in? For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water. For the thing which I fear comes upon me, and that which I am afraid of comes to me. I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, neither have I rest, but trouble comes.

Then Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these?read more.
I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock. In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for those whose foot slips. The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased? But now he has made me weary. Thou have made desolate all my company. And thou have laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.read more.
He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me. They have gaped upon me with their mouth. They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark. His archers encompass me round about. He splits my reins apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground. He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust. My face is red with weeping, and the shadow of death is on my eyelids, although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them. They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face. For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me. And they have cast off the bridle before me.read more.
Upon my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction. They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, [even] men who have no helper. As through a wide breach they come. In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me]. Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud. And now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest. By the great force my garment is disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat. He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me. Thou have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of thy hand thou persecute me. Thou lift me up to the wind. Thou cause me to ride [upon it], and thou disintegrate me in the storm. For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness. My heart is troubled, and does not rest. Days of affliction have come upon me. I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat. Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

And David went up by the ascent of the [mount of] Olives, and wept as he went up, and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they we

Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to LORD, saying, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to LORD, and said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.

Why do thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why do thou hide thyself in times of trouble?

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

And Moses said to LORD, Why have thou dealt ill with thy servant? And why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou lay the burden of all this people upon me? Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that thou should say to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which thou swore to their fathers? From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.read more.
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness.

And Moses returned to LORD, and said, LORD, why have thou dealt ill with this people? Why is it that thou have sent me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has dealt ill with this people, neither have thou delivered thy people at all.

And Moses cried to LORD, saying, What shall I do to this people? They are almost ready to stone me.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my

And he said, I have been very jealous for LORD, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left, and they seek my lif

Woe is me, my mother, that thou have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, [yet] every one of them curses me.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

O LORD, thou have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. Thou are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all the day; everyone mocks me. For as often as I speak, I cry out. I cry, Violence and destruction! Because the word of LORD is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day. And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot.read more.
For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we sha

Thou said, Woe is me now! For LORD has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundan Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.read more.
And LORD said, Do thou well to be angry? Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in the midst of it we hung up our harps. For there those who led us captive required of us songs, and those who wasted us, mirth, [saying], Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.read more.
How shall we sing LORD's song in a foreign land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee, if I do not prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy. Remember, O LORD, the day of Jerusalem against the sons of Edom, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who is to be destroyed, happy shall he be who rewards thee as thou have served us. Happy shall he be who takes and dashes thy little ones against the rock.

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.read more.
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones. He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail. He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead. He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy. Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked. He is to me as a bear laying in wait, as a lion in concealed places. He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood. He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes. And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.

And the kings of the earth who fornicated and lived wantonly with her, will weep and will beat their breasts for her when they see the smoke of her burning, having stood from afar because of the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! Because thy judgment has come in one hour. And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because no man buys their merchandise any more,read more.
merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and mar and cinnamon, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and olive oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and sheep, and cattle, and horses, and chariots, and bodies and souls of men. And the fruit of the lust of thy soul have departed from thee. And all the fat and bright things are destroyed from thee. And thou will, no, not find them any more. The merchants of these things who became rich from her will stand from afar because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning, and saying, Alas, alas, the great city, which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls! Because in one hour such great wealth was devastated. And every shipmaster, and every man who sails anywhere, and sailors, and as many as work by sea, stood from afar and cried out seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What is like the great city? And they cast dust on their heads, and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, Alas, alas, the great city in which all who had ships in the sea became rich from her luxuriance! Because in one hour she was devastated.

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

And it often casts him both into the fire and into the waters so that it might destroy him. But if thou can do anything, help us, having compassion toward us.

And they raised a voice, saying, Jesus, Master, be merciful to us.

Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

When I thought how I might understand this, it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God, and considered their latter end.

LORD, how my adversaries are increased! Many are those who rise up against me. Many there are who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. But thou, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory and he who lifts up of my head.read more.
I cry to LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider [and] answer me, O LORD my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death,read more.
lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him, [lest] my adversaries rejoice when I am moved. But I have trusted in thy loving kindness. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. I will sing to LORD because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, nor be thou envious against those who work unrighteousness. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Trust in LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and feed on [his] faithfulness.read more.
Delight thyself also in LORD, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart. Commit thy way to LORD. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass. And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, and thy justice as the noon-day. Rest in LORD, and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

Nevertheless I am continually with thee. Thou have held my right hand. Thou will guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.read more.
My flesh and my heart fails, [but] God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. For, lo, those who are far from thee shall perish. Thou have destroyed all those who go a whoring from thee. But it is good for me to draw near to God. I have made lord LORD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works.

Our fathers did not understand thy wonders in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of thy loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me. This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:read more.
[It is of] LORD's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail. They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him. LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of LORD.

Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ.

giving not one cause of stumbling in anything, so that the ministry may not be criticized, but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hungerings,read more.
in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in Holy Spirit, in non-hypocritical love, in word of truth, in power of God, through the weapons of righteousness of the right hand and of the left, through glory and disrepute, through slander and commendation; as deceitful, and yet true; as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not put to death; as grieving, but always rejoicing; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.

But rejoice in so far as ye are partakers in the sufferings of the Christ, so that also at the revealing of his glory ye may rejoice, having exceeding joy.