Bible Verses About Murmuring

For your sake we are put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.

Wake up, Adonai! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself! Don't thrust us off forever.

Why are you turning your face away, forgetting our pain and misery?

For we are lying flat in the dust, our bodies cling to the ground.

Get up, and come to help us! For the sake of your grace, redeem us!

It's all for nothing that I've kept my heart clean and washed my hands, staying free of guilt;

for all day long I am plagued; my punishment comes every morning.

If I had said, "I will talk like them,"I would have betrayed a generation of your children.

When I tried to understand all this, I found it too hard for me -

until I went into the sanctuaries of God and grasped what their destiny would be.

Indeed, you place them on a slippery slope and make them fall to their ruin.

How suddenly they are destroyed, swept away by terrors!

They are like a dream when one awakens; Adonai, when you rouse yourself, you will despise their phantoms.

When I had a sour attitude and felt stung by pained emotions,

I was too stupid to understand; I was like a brute beast with you.

Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High;

in their hearts they tested God by demanding food that would satisfy their cravings.

Yes, they spoke against God by asking, "Can God spread a table in the desert?

True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, until the vadis overflowed; but what about bread? Can he give that? Can he provide meat for his people?"

Therefore, when ADONAI heard, he was angry; fire blazed up against Ya'akov; his anger mounted against Isra'el;

and they complained in their tents, they didn't obey ADONAI.

Therefore, raising his hand, he swore to them that he would strike them down in the desert

I will keep on trusting even when I say, "I am utterly miserable,"

even when, in my panic, I declare, "Everything human is deceptive."

A person's own folly is what ruins his way, but he rages in his heart against ADONAI.