48 Bible Verses about Monotony

Meanwhile, certain riff-raff among the people had an insatiable appetite for food. As a result, they wept and turned back, and the Israelis cried out, "If only somebody would feed us some meat! How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic! But now we can't stand it anymore, because there's nothing in front of us except this manna."

The whole congregation of the Israelis complained against Moses and Aaron in the desert. The Israelis told them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt when we sat by the cooking pots, when we ate bread until we were filled because you brought us to this desert to kill this entire congregation with hunger."

and your children will wander throughout the wilderness for 40 years. They'll bear the consequences of your idolatries until your bodies are entirely consumed in the wilderness.

When the people saw that Moses took a long time to come down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and told him, "Come here and make us a god who will go before us, because, as for this fellow Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."

They told me, "Make a god for us who will go before us because, as for this fellow Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'

They told Aaron, "Make gods for us who will lead us. This Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt we don't know what happened to him!'

They wandered in desolate wilderness; they found no road to a city where they could live. Hungry and thirsty, their spirits failed.

"Then we set out from Horeb and walked through that vast and dreadful desert, where you observed the road to the Amorite hill country. Just as the LORD our God ordained for us, we finally arrived at Kadesh-barnea.

Even boys grow tired and weary, and young men collapse and fall,

At once the Spirit drove him into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness for 40 days being tempted by Satan. He was among wild animals, and angels were ministering to him.

Some sat in deepest darkness, shackled with cruel iron,

Then the Philistines grabbed him, gouged out his eyes, brought him down to Gaza, tied him up in bronze chains, and made him grind grain in their prison.

You have led us into a trap and set burdens on our backs.

So they threw Jeremiah into a cistern that belonged to the king's son Malchijah and was located in the courtyard of the guard. When they let Jeremiah down with ropes, because there was no water in the cistern only mud Jeremiah sank into the mud.

Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he went back to Galilee.

Don't be afraid of what you are going to suffer. Look! The Devil is going to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested. For ten days you will undergo suffering. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the victor's crown of life.

Because of their rebellious ways, fools suffered for their iniquities. They loathed all food, and even reached the gates of death.

and if you refuse my statutes, loathe my ordinances, and fail to carry out all of my commands, thereby breaching my covenant, then I will certainly do this to you: I'll appoint sudden terror to infect you like tuberculosis and fever. Your eyes will fail and your life will waste away. You'll plant in vain, because your enemies will consume what you plant.

"Now, my soul pours itself out; the time of my affliction has taken control of me. The night racks my bones; and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest.

And my soul is deeply distressed. But you, LORD, how long do I wait?

A woman was there who had a spirit that had disabled her for eighteen years. She was hunched over and completely unable to stand up straight.

One particular man was there who had been ill for 38 years.

He spoke and stirred up a windstorm that made its waves surge. The people ascended skyward and descended to the depths, their courage melting away in their peril.

You cast me into the deep into the heart of the sea. Flood waters engulfed me. All your breakers and your waves swirled over me.

It was the fourteenth night, and we were drifting through the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors suspected that land was near.

For those who oppose me are pursuing my life, crushing me to the ground, making me sit in darkness like those who died long ago.

So Moses stretched his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

My soul looks to the Lord more than watchmen look for the morning more, indeed, than watchmen for the morning.

At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night.

He told the man, "Because you have listened to what your wife said, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, "You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground because of you. You'll eat from it through pain-filled labor for the rest of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you'll eat the plants from the meadows. You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you're buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You're made from dust and you'll return to dust."

I'm like a servant who longs for the shade, like a hired laborer who is looking for his wages.

Let's not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

"I know what you've been doing, your toil, and your endurance. I also know that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not, and have found them to be false. You have endured and suffered because of my name, yet you have not grown weary.

until there was a great famine throughout Samaria. The siege lasted until a donkey's head cost 80 silver coins and one quarter of a unit of dove's dung cost five silver coins.

The city remained under siege until the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah.

But the field commander asked, "Was it only to all of you and to your master that my master sent me to speak these things? Wasn't it also to the men sitting on the wall who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?"

The king of Egypt eventually died, and the Israelis groaned because of the bondage. They cried out, and their cry for deliverance from slavery ascended to God.

All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their own masters as deserving of the highest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be discredited.

You household servants must submit yourselves to your masters out of respect, not only to those who are kind and fair, but also to those who are unjust.

"When I lie down I ask, "When will I wake up?' But the night continues and I keep tossing and turning until dawn.

The night racks my bones; and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest.

Then the king retired to his palace to spend the night fasting. He enjoyed no entertainment, and he couldn't sleep.

Think about the one who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you may not become tired and give up.

A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike.

Tasteless food isn't eaten without salt, is it? Is there any taste in an egg white?

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.