Numbers 11:11
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11 So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
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Deuteronomy 1:12
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12 But how can I bear the heavy burden of your disputes all by myself?
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Exodus 5:22
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22 Then Moses turned to the Lord and said, “O my Lord, why have you mistreated this people? Why did you ever send me?(A)
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2 Corinthians 11:28
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28 And, besides other things, I am under daily pressure because of my anxiety for all the churches.
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Malachi 3:14
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14 You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?(A)
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Lamentations 3:39-40
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39 Why should any who draw breath complain
about the punishment of their sins?(A)
40 Let us test and examine our ways
and return to the Lord.(B)
Lamentations 3:22-23
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22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,[a]
his mercies never come to an end;(A)
23 they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.(B)
Footnotes
- 3.22 Syr Tg: Heb Lord, we are not cut off
Jeremiah 20:14-18
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14 Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!(A)
15 Cursed be the man
who brought the news to my father, saying,
“A child is born to you, a son,”
making him very glad.(B)
16 Let that man be like the cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,(C)
17 because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave
and her womb forever pregnant.(D)
18 Why did I come forth from the womb
to see toil and sorrow
and spend my days in shame?(E)
Jeremiah 20:7-9
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Jeremiah Denounces His Persecutors
7 O Lord, you have enticed me,
and I was enticed;
you have overpowered me,
and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long;
everyone mocks me.(A)
8 For whenever I speak, I must cry out;
I must shout, “Violence and destruction!”
For the word of the Lord has become for me
a reproach and derision all day long.(B)
9 If I say, “I will not mention him
or speak any more in his name,”
then within me there is something like a burning fire
shut up in my bones;
I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.(C)
Jeremiah 15:18
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18 Why is my pain unceasing,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Truly, you are to me like a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail.(A)
Jeremiah 15:10
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Jeremiah Complains Again and Is Reassured
10 Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.(A)
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Psalm 143:2
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2 Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
for no one living is righteous before you.(A)
Psalm 130:3
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3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
Lord, who could stand?(A)
Job 10:2
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2 I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
let me know why you contend against me.(A)
Numbers 11:15
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15 If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”(A)
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Exodus 17:4
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4 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do for this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”(A)
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