'Wretched' in the Bible
Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us in to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink.”
The people spoke against God and Moses: “Why have you led us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
“You have taken a firm hold on me and have shriveled me up,It has become a witness [against me];And my leanness [and infirmity] rises up [as evidence] against me,It testifies to my face [about my guilt].
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.
[The] blessing of [the] wretched came upon me, and I caused [the] widow's heart to sing for joy.
"A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me.
He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.
He croucheth, he boweth down, that the wretched may fall by his strong ones.
Thou hast seen it, for thou thyself beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
For he did not think to show kindness,but pursued the afflicted, poor, and brokenheartedin order to put them to death.
For the Lord takes pleasure in His people;He will beautify the humble with salvation.
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
Cry aloud with your voice, O daughter of Gallim!Pay attention, Laishah and wretched Anathoth!
And I said, Surely these are the wretched ones, they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.
All her people groan, seeking bread;They have exchanged their desirable and precious things for foodTo restore their lives.“See, O Lord, and considerHow despised and repulsive I have become!”
How the animals groan!The herds of cattle are bewildered and wander aimlesslyBecause they have no pasture;Even the flocks of sheep suffer.
You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
So the covenant was broken on that day, and thus the most wretched of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord.
They *said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.”
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.