Bible Verses About Murmuring

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?”

Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice.

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”

I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against the LORD.