MURMURING

Passages on this topic · 141

• Genesis 4:13

  Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

• Genesis 4:14

  Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

• Genesis 30:1

  When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

• Exodus 5:21

  and they said to them, “May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

• Exodus 5:22

  Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

• Exodus 5:23

  For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; and you have not rescued your people at all.”

• Exodus 14:11

  They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

• Exodus 14:12

  Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

• Exodus 15:23

  When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

• Exodus 15:24

  The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

• Exodus 16:2

  The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

• Exodus 16:3

  and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

• Exodus 16:8

  Moses said, “Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”

• Exodus 16:12

  “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.’”

• Exodus 17:2

  Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

• Exodus 17:3

  The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

• Numbers 11:1

  The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

• Numbers 11:2

  The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

• Numbers 11:3

  The name of that place was called Taberah, because Yahweh’s fire burned among them.

• Numbers 11:4

  The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

• Numbers 11:5

  We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

• Numbers 11:6

  but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”

• Numbers 11:7

  The manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bdellium.

• Numbers 11:8

  The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

• Numbers 11:9

  When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

• Numbers 11:10

  Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent; and Yahweh’s anger burned greatly; and Moses was displeased.

• Numbers 11:11

  Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

• Numbers 11:12

  Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’

• Numbers 11:13

  Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

• Numbers 11:14

  I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

• Numbers 11:15

  If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

• Numbers 11:33

  While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

• Numbers 14:26

  Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

• Numbers 14:27

  “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

• Numbers 14:28

  Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.

• Numbers 14:29

  Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,

• Numbers 14:30

  surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

• Numbers 14:31

  But your little ones, that you said should be captured or killed, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

• Numbers 14:32

  But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

• Numbers 14:33

  Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

• Numbers 14:34

  After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’

• Numbers 14:35

  I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation, who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

• Numbers 14:36

  The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

• Numbers 14:37

  even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

• Numbers 16:2

  They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.

• Numbers 16:3

  They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

• Numbers 16:8

  Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi!

• Numbers 16:9

  Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

• Numbers 16:10

  and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?

• Numbers 16:11

  Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you murmur against him?”

• Numbers 16:13

  Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

• Numbers 16:14

  Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”

• Numbers 16:41

  But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”

• Numbers 17:10

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.”

• Numbers 17:11

  Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

• Numbers 20:2

  There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

• Numbers 20:3

  The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

• Numbers 20:4

  Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

• Numbers 20:5

  Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.”

• Numbers 21:5

  The people spoke against God, and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.”

• Numbers 21:6

  Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

• Deuteronomy 1:27

  You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

• Deuteronomy 1:28

  Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”

• 2 Samuel 6:8

  David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day.

• 1 Kings 19:4

  But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

• 1 Kings 19:10

  He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

• Job 15:11

  Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

• Job 15:12

  Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

• Job 15:13

  That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

• Job 33:12

  “Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

• Job 33:13

  Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

• Job 34:37

  For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”

• Psalms 37:1

  By David. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

• Psalms 44:9

  But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

• Psalms 44:10

  You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.

• Psalms 44:11

  You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

• Psalms 44:12

  You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

• Psalms 44:13

  You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

• Psalms 44:14

  You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

• Psalms 44:15

  All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

• Psalms 44:16

  At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

• Psalms 44:17

  All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

• Psalms 44:18

  Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

• Psalms 44:19

  Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

• Psalms 44:20

  If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;

• Psalms 44:21

  won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

• Psalms 44:22

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

• Psalms 44:23

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

• Psalms 44:24

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

• Psalms 44:25

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

• Psalms 44:26

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

• Psalms 73:3

  For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

• Psalms 73:13

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

• Psalms 73:14

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

• Psalms 73:15

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

• Psalms 73:16

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

• Psalms 73:17

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

• Psalms 73:18

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

• Psalms 73:19

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

• Psalms 73:20

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

• Psalms 73:21

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

• Psalms 73:22

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

• Psalms 78:17

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

• Psalms 78:18

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

• Psalms 78:19

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

• Psalms 78:20

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

• Psalms 78:21

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

• Psalms 116:10

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

• Psalms 116:11

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

• Proverbs 19:3

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

• Ecclesiastes 2:17

  So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 2:18

  I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

• Ecclesiastes 7:10

  Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.

• Isaiah 38:10

  I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

• Isaiah 38:11

  I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

• Isaiah 38:12

  My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

• Isaiah 38:13

  I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

• Isaiah 38:14

  I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

• Isaiah 38:15

  What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

• Isaiah 38:16

  Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.

• Isaiah 38:17

  Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

• Isaiah 38:18

  For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

• Jeremiah 15:10

  Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me.

• Jeremiah 20:14

  Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

• Jeremiah 20:15

  Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.

• Jeremiah 20:16

  Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

• Jeremiah 20:17

  because he didn’t kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

• Jeremiah 20:18

  Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

• Lamentations 3:39

  Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

• Malachi 3:14

  You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

• Luke 10:40

  But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”

• John 6:41

  The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.”

• John 6:42

  They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’”

• John 6:43

  Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur among yourselves.

• John 6:52

  The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

• Romans 9:19

  You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

• Romans 9:20

  But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

• 1 Corinthians 10:10

  Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

• Philippians 2:14

  Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

• James 1:16

  Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

• James 5:9

  Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.