“Why do you treat your servant so badly?” Moses asked the Lord. “Why are you so displeased with me that you burden me with all this people?
I will say to God: Do not put me in the wrong! Let me know why you oppose me.
If you, Lord, keep account of sins, Lord, who can stand?
Do not enter into judgment with your servant; before you no one can be just.
So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!”
Then Moses again had recourse to the Lord and said, “Lord, why have you treated this people badly? And why did you send me?
Woe to me, my mother, that you gave me birth! a man of strife and contention to all the land! I neither borrow nor lend, yet everyone curses me.
Why is my pain continuous, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? To me you are like a deceptive brook, waters that cannot be relied on!
You have said, “It is useless to serve God; what do we gain by observing God’s requirements, And by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?
When Moses heard the people, family after family, crying at the entrance of their tents, so that the Lord became very angry, he was grieved.
If this is the way you will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face my distress.” The Seventy Elders.
And apart from these things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.
But how can I, by myself, bear the weight, the contentiousness of you?