48 Bible Verses about Self Pity

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Exodus 16:3

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!”

Exodus 14:10-12

As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians coming after them. Then the Israelites were terrified and cried out to the Lord for help. They said to Moses: “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you took us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

Exodus 17:3

But the people thirsted there for water, and grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you ever bring us out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

Numbers 11:4-6

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!”

Numbers 14:1-4

Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night. All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and little children will become plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?” read more.
So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.”

Deuteronomy 1:26-28

“But you were not willing to go up, rebelling against the command of the Lord your God. You grumbled in your tents and said, ‘The Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites so they would destroy us, because He hated us. Where can we go? Our brothers have discouraged us, saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens. We also saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’

1 Corinthians 10:10-11

Nor should we complain as some of them did, and were killed by the destroyer. Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Job 6:1-13

Then Job answered: If only my grief could be weighed
and my devastation placed with it in the scales.
For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas!
That is why my words are rash.
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Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me;
my spirit drinks their poison.
God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass
or an ox low over its fodder?
Is bland food eaten without salt?
Is there flavor in an egg white?
I refuse to touch them;
they are like contaminated food. If only my request would be granted
and God would provide what I hope for:
that He would decide to crush me,
to unleash His power and cut me off!
It would still bring me comfort,
and I would leap for joy in unrelenting pain
that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. What strength do I have that I should continue to hope?
What is my future, that I should be patient?
Is my strength that of stone,
or my flesh made of bronze?
Since I cannot help myself,
the hope for success has been banished from me.

Job 3:1-26

After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born. He said: May the day I was born perish,
and the night when they said,
“A boy is conceived.”
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If only that day had turned to darkness!
May God above not care about it,
or light shine on it.
May darkness and gloom reclaim it,
and a cloud settle over it.
May an eclipse of the sun terrify it.
If only darkness had taken that night away!
May it not appear among the days of the year
or be listed in the calendar.
Yes, may that night be barren;
may no joyful shout be heard in it.
Let those who curse certain days
cast a spell on it,
those who are skilled in rousing Leviathan.
May its morning stars grow dark.
May it wait for daylight but have none;
may it not see the breaking of dawn.
For that night did not shut
the doors of my mother’s womb,
and hide sorrow from my eyes. Why was I not stillborn;
why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?
Why did the knees receive me,
and why were there breasts for me to nurse?
Now I would certainly be lying down in peace;
I would be asleep.
Then I would be at rest
with the kings and counselors of the earth,
who rebuilt ruined cities for themselves,
or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child,
like infants who never see daylight?
There the wicked cease to make trouble,
and there the weary find rest.
The captives are completely at ease;
they do not hear the voice of their oppressor.
Both small and great are there,
and the slave is set free from his master. Why is light given to one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,
who wait for death, but it does not come,
and search for it more than for hidden treasure,
who are filled with much joy
and are glad when they reach the grave?
Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?
I sigh when food is put before me,
and my groans pour out like water.
For the thing I feared has overtaken me,
and what I dreaded has happened to me.
I cannot relax or be still;
I have no rest, for trouble comes.

Job 12:1-6

Then Job answered: No doubt you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you!
But I also have a mind;
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?read more.
I am a laughingstock to my friends,
by calling on God, who answers me.
The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
The one who is at ease holds calamity in contempt
and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
The tents of robbers are safe,
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.

Job 16:6-17

Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,
and if I hold back, what have I lost?
Surely He has now exhausted me.
You have devastated my entire family.
You have shriveled me up—it has become a witness;
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
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His anger tears at me, and He harasses me.
He gnashes His teeth at me.
My enemy pierces me with His eyes.
They open their mouths against me
and strike my cheeks with contempt;
they join themselves together against me.
God hands me over to unjust men;
He throws me into the hands of the wicked.
I was at ease, but He shattered me;
He seized me by the scruff of the neck
and smashed me to pieces.
He set me up as His target;
His archers surround me.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.
He breaks through my defenses again and again;
He charges at me like a warrior. I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;
I have buried my strength in the dust.
My face has grown red with weeping,
and darkness covers my eyes,
although my hands are free from violence
and my prayer is pure.

Job 30:9-31

Now I am mocked by their songs;
I have become an object of scorn to them.
They despise me and keep their distance from me;
they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
Because God has loosened my bowstring and oppressed me,
they have cast off restraint in my presence.
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The rabble rise up at my right;
they trap my feet
and construct their siege ramp against me.
They tear up my path;
they contribute to my destruction,
without anyone to help them.
They advance as through a gaping breach;
they keep rolling in through the ruins.
Terrors are turned loose against me;
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud. 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 clothing is distorted with great force;
He chokes me by the neck of my garment.
He throws me into the mud,
and I have become like dust and ashes. I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;
when I stand up, You merely look at me.
You have turned against me with cruelty;
You harass me with Your strong hand.
You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it;
You scatter me in the storm.
Yes, I know that You will lead me to death—
the place appointed for all who live. Yet no one would stretch out his hand
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.
Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?
Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
But when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, darkness came.
I am churning within and cannot rest;
days of suffering confront me.
I walk about blackened, but not by the sun.
I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.
I have become a brother to jackals
and a companion of ostriches.
My skin blackens and flakes off,
and my bones burn with fever.
My lyre is used for mourning
and my flute for the sound of weeping.

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Genesis 27:34

When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

2 Samuel 15:30

David was climbing the slope of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he ascended. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. Each of the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they ascended.

2 Kings 20:2-3

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, “Please Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases You.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Isaiah 38:2-3

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. He said, “Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly, and have done what pleases You.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Psalm 73:2-3

But as for me, my feet almost slipped;
my steps nearly went astray.
For I envied the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 74:1

A Maskil of Asaph.Why have You rejected us forever, God?
Why does Your anger burn
against the sheep of Your pasture?

Numbers 11:11-15

So Moses asked the Lord, “Why have You brought such trouble on Your servant? Why are You angry with me, and why do You burden me with all these people? Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth so You should tell me, ‘Carry them at your breast, as a nursing woman carries a baby,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers? Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are crying to me: ‘Give us meat to eat!’ read more.
I can’t carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me. If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”

Exodus 5:22-23

So Moses went back to the Lord and asked, “Lord, why have You caused trouble for this people? And why did You ever send me? Ever since I went in to Pharaoh to speak in Your name he has caused trouble for this people, and You haven’t delivered Your people at all.”

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Exodus 17:4

Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What should I do with these people? In a little while they will stone me!”

1 Kings 19:4

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”

1 Kings 19:10

He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts, but the Israelites have abandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.”

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother,
that you gave birth to me,
a man who incites dispute and conflict
in all the land.
I did not lend or borrow,
yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 20:7-10

You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived.
You seized me and prevailed.
I am a laughingstock all the time;
everyone ridicules me.
For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I proclaim, “Violence and destruction!”
because the word of the Lord has become for me
constant disgrace and derision.
If I say, “I won’t mention Him
or speak any longer in His name,”
His message becomes a fire burning in my heart,
shut up in my bones.
I become tired of holding it in,
and I cannot prevail.
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For I have heard the gossip of many people,
“Terror is on every side!
Report him; let’s report him!”
Everyone I trusted watches for my fall.
“Perhaps he will be deceived
so that we might prevail against him
and take our vengeance on him.”

Jeremiah 45:3

‘You have said, “Woe is me, because the Lord has added misery to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.”’

Jonah 4:1-5

But Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious. He prayed to the Lord: “Please, Lord, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my own country? That’s why I fled toward Tarshish in the first place. I knew that You are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to become angry, rich in faithful love, and One who relents from sending disaster. And now, Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” read more.
The Lord asked, “Is it right for you to be angry?” Jonah left the city and sat down east of it. He made himself a shelter there and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.

Psalm 137:1-9

By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.
There we hung up our lyres
on the poplar trees,
for our captors there asked us for songs,
and our tormentors, for rejoicing:
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”read more.
How can we sing the Lord’s song
on foreign soil?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.
May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy! Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!”
Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.
Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.

Lamentations 3:1-18

I am the man who has seen affliction
under the rod of God’s wrath.
He has driven me away and forced me to walk
in darkness instead of light.
Yes, He repeatedly turns His hand
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ב BetHe has worn away my flesh and skin;
He has shattered my bones.
He has laid siege against me,
encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
He has made me dwell in darkness
like those who have been dead for ages. ג GimelHe has walled me in so I cannot escape;
He has weighed me down with chains.
Even when I cry out and plead for help,
He rejects my prayer.
He has walled in my ways with cut stones;
He has made my paths crooked. ד DaletHe is a bear waiting in ambush,
a lion in hiding.
He forced me off my way and tore me to pieces;
He left me desolate.
He strung His bow
and set me as the target for His arrow. ה HeHe pierced my kidneys
with His arrows.
I am a laughingstock to all my people,
mocked by their songs all day long.
He filled me with bitterness,
satiated me with wormwood. ו VavHe ground my teeth on gravel
and made me cower in the dust.
My soul has been deprived of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness is.
Then I thought: My future is lost,
as well as my hope from the Lord.

Revelation 18:9-19

The kings of the earth who have committed sexual immorality and lived luxuriously with her will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning. They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying:

Woe, woe, the great city,
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in a single hour
your judgment has come. The merchants of the earth will also weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their merchandise any longer— read more.
merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; fine fabrics of linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; all kinds of fragrant wood products; objects of ivory; objects of expensive wood, brass, iron, and marble; cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine, olive oil, fine wheat flour, and grain; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and slaves and human lives. The fruit you craved has left you.
All your splendid and glamorous things are gone;
they will never find them again. The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will stand far off in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning, saying:

Woe, woe, the great city,
dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet,
adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls,
for in a single hour
such fabulous wealth was destroyed!

And every shipmaster, seafarer, the sailors, and all who do business by sea, stood far off as they watched the smoke from her burning and kept crying out: “Who is like the great city?” They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning:

Woe, woe, the great city,
where all those who have ships on the sea
became rich from her wealth,
for in a single hour she was destroyed.

Mark 9:22

“And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

Luke 17:13

and raised their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

Psalm 43:5

Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.

Psalm 73:16-17

When I tried to understand all this,
it seemed hopeless
until I entered God’s sanctuary.
Then I understood their destiny.

Psalm 3:1-4

A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom.Lord, how my foes increase!
There are many who attack me.
Many say about me,
“There is no help for him in God.”Selah But You, Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, and the One who lifts up my head.
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I cry aloud to the Lord,
and He answers me from His holy mountain.Selah

Psalm 13:1-6

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, how long will You forget me?
Forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
How long will I store up anxious concerns within me,
agony in my mind every day?
How long will my enemy dominate me? Consider me and answer, Lord my God.
Restore brightness to my eyes;
otherwise, I will sleep in death.
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My enemy will say, “I have triumphed over him,”
and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken. But I have trusted in Your faithful love;
my heart will rejoice in Your deliverance.
I will sing to the Lord
because He has treated me generously.

Psalm 37:1-7

Davidic.Do not be agitated by evildoers;
do not envy those who do wrong.
For they wither quickly like grass
and wilt like tender green plants. Trust in the Lord and do what is good;
dwell in the land and live securely.
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Take delight in the Lord,
and He will give you your heart’s desires. Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in Him, and He will act,
making your righteousness shine like the dawn,
your justice like the noonday. Be silent before the Lord and wait expectantly for Him;
do not be agitated by one who prospers in his way,
by the man who carries out evil plans.

Psalm 73:23-28

Yet I am always with You;
You hold my right hand.
You guide me with Your counsel,
and afterward You will take me up in glory.
Who do I have in heaven but You?
And I desire nothing on earth but You.
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My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart,
my portion forever.
Those far from You will certainly perish;
You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
But as for me, God’s presence is my good.
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
so I can tell about all You do.

Psalm 106:7

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp
the significance of Your wonderful works
or remember Your many acts of faithful love;
instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

Lamentations 3:19-26

ז ZayinRemember my affliction and my homelessness,
the wormwood and the poison.
I continually remember them
and have become depressed.
Yet I call this to mind,
and therefore I have hope: read more.
ח KhetBecause of the Lord’s faithful love
we do not perish,
for His mercies never end.
They are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness!
I say: The Lord is my portion,
therefore I will put my hope in Him. ט TetThe Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
to the person who seeks Him.
It is good to wait quietly
for deliverance from the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:3-10

We give no opportunity for stumbling to anyone, so that the ministry will not be blamed. But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:

by great endurance, by afflictions,
by hardship, by difficulties,
by beatings, by imprisonments,
by riots, by labors,
by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,
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by purity, by knowledge,
by patience, by kindness,
by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love,
by the message of truth,
by the power of God;
through weapons of righteousness
on the right hand and the left,
through glory and dishonor,
through slander and good report;
as deceivers yet true;
as unknown yet recognized;
as dying and look—we live;
as being disciplined yet not killed;
as grieving yet always rejoicing;
as poor yet enriching many;
as having nothing yet possessing everything.

James 1:2-3

Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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