Lamentations 3:39

Israel's Affliction

³⁸ Do not both adversity and good
come from the mouth of the Most High?
³⁹ Why should any living person complain,
any man, because of the punishment for his sins? ⁴⁰ נ NunLet us search out and examine our ways,
and turn back to the Lord.

Sin

Micah 7:9

Because I have sinned against Him,
I must endure the Lord’s rage
until He argues my case
and establishes justice for me.
He will bring me into the light;
I will see His salvation.

Proverbs 19:3

A man’s own foolishness leads him astray,
yet his heart rages against the Lord.

Genesis 4:5-7

but He did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.

Genesis 4:13-14

But Cain answered the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bear!

Leviticus 26:41

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled, and if they will pay the penalty for their sin,

Leviticus 26:43

For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

Numbers 11:11

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?

Numbers 16:41

The next day the entire Israelite community complained about Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the Lord’s people!”

Numbers 17:12

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we’re perishing! We’re lost; we’re all lost!

Joshua 7:6-13

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell before the ark of the Lord with his face to the ground until evening, as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

2 Samuel 6:7-8

Then the Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah, and God struck him dead on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there next to the ark of God.

2 Kings 3:13

However, Elisha said to King Joram of Israel, “We have nothing in common. Go to the prophets of your father and your mother!”

But the king of Israel replied, “No, because it is the Lord who has summoned these three kings to hand them over to Moab.”

2 Kings 6:32

Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger got to him, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

Ezra 9:13

After all that has happened to us because of our evil deeds and terrible guilt—though You, our God, have punished us less than our sins deserve and have allowed us to survive—

Job 11:6

He would show you the secrets of wisdom,
for true wisdom has two sides.
Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your sin.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Indeed, it was for my own welfare
that I had such great bitterness;
but Your love has delivered me
from the Pit of destruction,
for You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.

Isaiah 51:20

Your children have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a net.
They are full of the Lord’s fury,
the rebuke of your God.

Jeremiah 30:15

Why do you cry out about your injury?
Your pain has no cure!
I have done these things to you
because of your enormous guilt
and your innumerable sins.

Lamentations 3:22

ח KhetBecause of the Lord’s faithful love
we do not perish,
for His mercies never end.

Jonah 2:3-4

You threw me into the depths,
into the heart of the seas,
and the current overcame me.
All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.

Jonah 4:8-9

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind. The sun beat down so much on Jonah’s head that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, “It’s better for me to die than to live.”

Hebrews 12:5-12

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly
or faint when you are reproved by Him,

Revelation 16:9

and people were burned by the intense heat. So they blasphemed the name of God, who had the power over these plagues, and they did not repent and give Him glory.