48 Bible Verses about Self Pity

And the sons of Israel will say to them, Who will give to die by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt in our sitting by the pot of flesh, in our eating bread to satiety? for ye brought us forth to this desert to kill all this convocation with hunger.

And Pharaoh drew near, and the sons of Israel will lift up their eyes, and behold, Egypt encamped behind them; and they will be exceedingly afraid: and the sons of Israel will cry to Jehovah. And they will say to Moses, Because no tombs are in Egypt, didst thou take us to die in the desert? what this thou didst to us to bring us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word which we spake to thee in Egypt, saying, Desist from us, and we will serve the Egyptians? For it is good to us to serve Egypt rather than that we died in the desert

And the people will thirst there for water; and the people will murmur against Moses, and will say, For what this did ye bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?

And the scraped together which in its midst will long a longing; and the sons of Israel also will turn back and weep, and they will say, Who will feed us with flesh? We remembered the fish which we ate in Egypt gratuitously; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlics. And now our soul shall be dried up; not any thing but to the manna our eyes.

And all the assembly will lift up and give their voice; and the people will weep in that night And all the children of Israel will murmur against Moses, and against Aaron; and all the assembly will say to them, Would we died in the land of Egypt! or in this desert would that we died! And wherefore does Jehovah bring us to this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our little ones shall be for a prey. Would it not be good for us to turn back to Egypt?read more.
And they will say, a man to his brother, We will give a head, and turn back to Egypt

And ye were not willing to go up, and ye will rebel against the mouth of Jehovah your God, And ye will murmur in your tents, and say, In Jehovah's hating us he brought us out of the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorite to destroy us. Whither are we going up? our brethren melted our heart, saying, A people great and high above us; cities great and fortified to the heavens; and also, the sons of the Anakims, we saw there.

Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. And all those happened types to them; and it was written for our reminding, to whom the ends of the times have arrived.

And Job will answer and say, I would weighing, my anger shall be weighed, and my falls shall be lifted up in the balances together. For now it will be heavy above the sand of the seas: for this my words were rash.read more.
For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me. Shall the wild ass bray at grass? if the ox will low over his provender? Shall that unseasoned be eaten without salt? if there is taste in purslain slime? My soul refused to touch these as the loathsomeness of my bread. Who will give my asking shall come? and will God give my expectation? And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he cut me off? And it will yet be my consolation, and I shall exult in pain: he will not spare; for I hid not the words of of the Holy One. For what my strength that I shall wait and what my end, that I shall prolong my soul? If my strength the strength of stones? if my flesh of brass? And if not my help in me? and deliverance fled from me?

My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul

After this Job opened his mouth, and he will curse his day. Job will answer and say, The day shall perish I shall bring forth in it, and the night said, A male was conceived.read more.
That day shall be darkness; God shall not search it out from above, and the light shall not shine upon it. Darkness shall pollute it, and the shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell upon it; the obscurations of day shall terrify it That night darkness shall take it; it shall not be joined upon the days of the year; it shall not come into the number of months. Behold, that night shall be hard; no rejoicing shall be in it They cursing the day shall curse it, they being ready to rouse up the sea monster. The stars of its twilight shall he dark; it shall wait for light, and none; and it shall not look upon the eyelashes of the dawn., Because it shut not up the doors of my belly; and shall it hide the labor of mine eyes? Wherefore shall I not die from the womb? and I came forth from the belly, and I shall expire. Why did the knees anticipate me? and wherefore the breasts that I shall suck? For now I lay down and I shall rest; I slept: then there will be rest to me. With kings and counselors of the earth building the wastes for themselves; Or with chiefs, gold to them, filling their houses with silver: Or as a hidden abortion I shall not be; as children they saw not light. There the unjust ceased to be angry, and the weary in strength shall rest. They being bound, rested together; they heard not the voice of the taskmaster. The little and the great, he is there; and the servant being free from his lord. Wherefore shall light be given to him toiling, and life to the bitter of soul? Waiting for death, and it is not; and they will dig more than for hidden treasures; Rejoicing with joy when they find the grave; To a man whose way was hid, and God will hedge about him? For my sighing will come before any bread, and my groanings shall be poured put as waters. For I feared a fear, and it will come upon me, and what I was afraid of will come to me. I was not secure, and I rested not, and I was not quiet; and trouble will come.

And Job will answer and say, Verily that ye are the people, and shall wisdom die with you? Also to me a heart like you; I fall not more than you: and with whom not like these?read more.
I shall be he laughing at his neighbor, calling to God, and he will answer him: the just blameless one being laughed at To misfortune is contempt to the thoughts of him at ease, being prepared for the waverings of the foot The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand

If I shall speak, my pain will not be held back, and shall I cease, what will go from me? But now he made me weary: thou hast made desolate all mine assembly. Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face.read more.
He rent in his anger, and he will lie in wait for me, gnashing upon me with his teeth; mine enemy will sharpen his eyes against me. They gaped upon me with their mouth; with reproach they struck upon my cheek; they will fill out together against me. God will shut me up to the evil one, and he will cast me into the hands of the unjust I was secure, and he will break me in pieces: and he seized upon my neck and he will disperse me, and he will set me up to him for a mark: His multitudes will surround upon me, he will cleave my reins asunder, and not spare; he will pour my gall upon the earth. He will break me, breaking upon the face of breaking; he will run upon me as the strong one. I sewed together sackcloth upon my skin, and I thrust my horn into the dust. My face became red from weeping, and upon my eye-lashes the shadow of death Not for violence in my hands: and my prayer is clean.

And now I was their song, and I to them for a by word. They abhorred me, they removed far from me, and withheld not spittle from my face. Because he loosed his cord and he will afflict me, and they cast off the bridle from before me.read more.
Upon the right the brood will rise up; they cast away my feet, and they will cast up the paths of their destruction against me. They tore up my beaten path, they helped for my fall, no help to them. They will come as a wide breach under a destroying tempest, they rolled themselves. Terror turned upon me, it will pursue my willingness as the wind, and my salvation passed away as a cloud. And now my soul shall be poured out upon me; and the days of affliction will hold me fast The night my bones pierced from above me, and my gnawers will not lie down. By the multitude of power my clothing will be disguised: it will gird me about as the mouth of my coat He cast me to the clay; I shall become like as dust and ashes. I shall cry to thee and thou wilt not answer me: I stood up and thou wilt not attend to me. Thou wilt turn to be cruel to me: with the strength of thy hand thou wilt lie in wait for me. Thou wilt lift me up to the wind; thou wilt cause me to ride, and thou wilt melt to me counsel. For I knew thou wilt turn me back to death, and the house appointed to all living. But prayer is nothing; he will send forth the hand, if in his calamity to them a cry for help. If I wept not for him being hard of day: my soul was grieved for the needy. For I hoped for good and evil will come: and I shall wait for light and darkness will come. My bowels boiled, and were not silent: the days of affliction anticipated me. I went darkened without warmth: I rose up, I shall cry in the convocation. I was a brother to jackals, and a companion to the daughters of the ostrich. My skin was black from above me, and my bones burnt from heat And my harp will be for mourning, and my pipe for the voice of those weeping.

When Esau heard the words of his father, and he will cry out with a great cry, even bitter exceedingly, and he will say to his father, praise me, me also, my father!

And David went up in the ascent of the olive trees, going up and weeping, and the head to him covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people which were with him covered each his head, and they went up, going up and weeping.

And he will turn his face to the wall and pray, saying, O Jehovah, remember now how I went before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and I did the good in thine eyes. And Hezekiah will weep a great weeping.

And Hezekiah will turn his face to the wall and pray to Jehovah. And he will say, O Jehovah, remember now how I went before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and I did the good in thine eyes: And Hezekiah will weep a great weeping.

Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou stand afar off? wilt thou hide for times in straits?

And I, my feet nearly turned aside; my going was almost poured out For I was envious at the foolish; I shall see the peace of the unjust

Understanding to Asaph. Wherefore, O God, didst thou reject forever? will thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy feeding?

And Moses will say to Jehovah, For what hest thou done evil to thy servant? and for what did I not find grace in thine eyes, to put the debt of all this people upon me? Did I form all this people? did I beget them? for thou wilt say to me, Lift them up into thy bosom, as a nurse will lift up the sucking child upon the land which thou swarest to their fathers. Whence to me flesh to give to all this people? for they weep upon me, saying, Thou shalt give to us flesh and we shall eatread more.
I shall not be able to lift up alone all this people, for it is heavy for me. And if so thou doest to me, killing, kill me now, if I found grace in thine eyes; and I shall not look upon my evil

And Moses will turn back to Jehovah, and he will say, My Lord, why didst thou evil to this people? wherefore for this didst, thou send me? And from the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he did evil to this people: and delivering, thou didst not deliver thy people.

And Moses will cry to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do to this people? yet a little and they will stone me.

And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

And he will say, Being zealous I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies: for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; they tore down thine altars, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it

Wo to me, my mother, for thou broughtest me forth a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth. I lent not on interest and they lent not to me on interest: they are altogether cursing me.

Wherefore was my pain everlasting and my blow incurable, refusing to be healed? Being, wilt thou be to me as falsehood, the waters were not faithful?

Thou didst persuade me, O Jehovah, and I shall be persuaded: thou didst hold me fast, and thou wilt prevail: I was for a derision all the day, all mocking to me. For as often as I shall speak I shall cry; violence and oppression I shall call; for the word of Jehovah was to me for a reproach and for a derision all the day. And I said, I will not bring him to remembrance, and I will no more speak in his name. And it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was wearied to endure, and I shall not be able.read more.
For I heard the slander of many, terror from round about Announce ye, and we will announce. Every man of my peace watching my halting: perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we will take our vengeance of him.

Thou saidst, Wo to me now! for Jehovah added grief upon my pain; I was weary in my sighing, and I found not rest.

And it will be evil to Jonah, a great evil, and it will kindle to him. And he will pray to Jehovah and say, Ah, now, O Jehovah, was not this my word while I was upon my land? For this I anticipated to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou art merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and of much kindness, and lamenting for evil. And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.read more.
And Jehovah will say, Didst thou well for thee to be angry? And Jonah will go out of the city, and sit from the east to the city, and he make to him there a tent, and he will sit under it in the shadow, even till he shall see what will be upon the city.

By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down: also we wept in our remembering Zion. Upon the willows in her midst, we hung our harps; For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion.read more.
How shall we sing the song of Jehovah upon the land of a stranger? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten. My tongue shall cleave to in palate, if I remember thee not; if I bring not up Jerusalem upon the head of my joy. Remember, O Jehovah, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; they saying, Make bare, make bare, even to the foundations in her. O daughter of Babel laying waste; happy he recompensing to thee thy retribution thou didst to us Happy he taking hold and dashing in pieces thy children against the rock.

I The man seeing affliction by the rod of his wrath. He led me and he brought darkness and not light Surely he will turn back against me; he will turn his hand all the day.read more.
He wasted away my flesh and my skin; he broke my bones. He built against me, and he will surround with poison and distress. He caused me to dwell in darknesses as the dead of old. He walled about me and I shall not go forth: he loaded my brass. Also when I shall exclaim and cry out, he stopped my prayer. He walled up my ways with hewn stones, he made crooked my beaten paths. He is to me a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places. He turned aside my ways and he will tear me in pieces: he set me a desolation. He bent his bow, he will set me up as a mark for the arrow. He brought the sons of his quiver into my reins. I was a derision to all my people; their song all the day. He filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink He will break my teeth with gravel stones, he covered me with ashes. Thou wilt cast of my soul from peace: I forgat good. And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah:

And weep for her, and lament over her, shall the kings of the earth having been debauched with her, and having led an insolent life, when they see the smoke of her burning, Standing from far off for fear of her torture, saying, Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour thy judgment came. And the wholesale merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for their cargo will none purchase more:read more.
The cargo of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all fir wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of precious wood, and of iron, and brass, and marble, And cinnamon, and perfumes, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and the finest wheat flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and of souls of men, And the harvest fruit of the eager desire of thy soul departed from thee, and all fat and brilliant things departed from thee, and thou shouldest find them no more. The wholesale merchants of these things, having been rich from her, shall stand from far off for fear of her torture, weeping and mourning, And saying, Woe, woe, the great city, surrounded with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! for in one hour was so great riches laid waste. And every pilot, and all the crowd upon ships, and the sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood from far off, And cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What like the great city! And they cast earth upon their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all having ships in the sea were rich by her value! for in one hour was she rendered a desert.

Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, for the hand of God touched upon me.

And many times also it cast him into fire, and into water, that it might destroy him; but if thou canst anything, help us, having had compassion upon us.

And they lifted up the voice, saying, Jesus, faster, pity us.

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face, and my God.

And I shall think to know this, it is labor in mine eyes. Till I shall come to the holy place of God I shall not understand for their latter state.

Chanting of David in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how they pressing upon me were multiplied! many rising up against me. Many saying to my soul, No salvation to him in God. Silence. And thou, Jehovah, a shield about me: my glory, and lifting up my head.read more.
With my voice will I call to Jehovah, and he will answer me from his holy mountain. Silence.

To the overseer; chanting of David. How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou wholly forget me? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I put counsels in my soul, grief in my heart the day? how long shall mine enemy rise up against me?read more.
Look upon, answer me, O Jehovah my God: enlighten mine eyes, lest I shall sleep the death; Lest mine enemy shall say, I prevailed against him; mine adversaries shall exult when I shall be moved. And I trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall exult in thy salvation. I will sing to Jehovah for he benefited me.

To David. Thou shalt not be angry at those doing evil, and thou shalt not envy those working iniquity. For as grass hastening they shall be cut down, and as the greenness of grass they shall fall away. Trust in Jehovah and do good; dwell in the land and be fed with faithfulness.read more.
And delight thyself upon Jehovah, and he shall give to thee the petitions of thy heart Roll thy way upon Jehovah, and trust upon him, and he will work. And he brought forth as the light thy justice, and thy judgment as the noon. Be silent to Jehovah and wait for him: thou shalt not be angry at him prospering his way, at the man doing wickednesses.

And I always with thee: thou didst hold by my right hand. In thy counsel thou wilt guide me, and after, thou wilt receive me with glory. Who to me in the heavens? and from thee I desired nothing in the earth.read more.
My flesh failed and my heart: the rock of my heart and my portion is God forever. For behold, they being far off from thee shall perish: thou didst lay waste all committing fornication from thee. And I drawing near to God, it is good for me: I put in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, to recount all thy works.

Our fathers considered not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; they embittered at the sea, the sea of sedge;

Remembering my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the poison. Remembering, my soul will remember, and will be bowed down upon me. I will turn this back to my heart; for this I shall hope.read more.
The mercies of Jehovah are that we were not consumed, for his compassions were not finished. New for the mornings: great thy faithfulness. Jehovah my portion, said my soul; for this I will hope toward him. Good Jehovah to those waiting for him, to the soul that will seek him. Good, and he shall wait and stand still for the salvation of Jehovah.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so by Christ abounds also our comfort.

Giving no offence in any thing, that the service be not blamed: But in every thing recommending ourselves as servants of God, in much patience, in pressures, in necessities, in extremities, In blows, in imprisonments, in disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in fastings;read more.
In purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned. In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left, Through glory and ignominy, through slander and applause: as erring, and true; As being ignorant, and knowing; as dying, and, behold, we live; as being disciplined, and not killed; As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.

But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy.