Self-pity
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· 4 viewsSorrow or despondency aroused by one’s own suffering or misfortune. It can result from personal loss or suffering, hardship in God’s service or the judgment of God. Its cure is to remember the goodness of God.
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Examples of self-pity as a result of personal loss or suffering
Examples of self-pity as a result of personal loss or suffering
The Israelites in the wilderness
The Israelites in the wilderness
and the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
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Job
Job
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Examples of self-pity as a result of hardship in the service of God
Examples of self-pity as a result of hardship in the service of God
Moses
Moses
And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
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Elijah
Elijah
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
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Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
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Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
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Examples of self-pity as a result of God’s judgment
Examples of self-pity as a result of God’s judgment
; ; The kings, merchants and sailors will be full of self-pity when they see the destruction of Babylon, because their opportunities for making wealth will be gone.
People calling upon others to pity them
People calling upon others to pity them
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends;
For the hand of God hath touched me.
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Turning to God puts self-pity in its true perspective
Turning to God puts self-pity in its true perspective
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?
Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him,
Who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
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