Bible Verses About Murmuring

Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

Stir up--why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,

For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.

Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.

Only--a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.

If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,

Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended--consumed from terrors.

As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

And they speak against God--they said: `Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. `Also--bread is He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'

Therefore hath Jehovah heard, And He sheweth Himself wroth, And fire hath been kindled against Jacob, And anger also hath gone up against Israel,

And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

I have believed, for I speak, I--I have been afflicted greatly.

I said in my haste, `Every man is a liar.'

The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.