because

Psalm 38:3, 18
There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin. . . .

Psalm 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Psalm 90:7-9
For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. . . .

Lamentations 1:18
The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 3:39-42
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins? . . .

Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Daniel 9:8-14
O LORD, we are covered with shame--our kings, our leaders, and our fathers--because we have sinned against You. . . .

Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

thou hast

Psalm 30:6, 7
In prosperity I said, "I will never be shaken." . . .

Psalm 73:18-20
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin. . . .

Psalm 147:6
The LORD sustains the afflicted, but casts the wicked to the ground.

1 Samuel 2:7, 8
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts. . . .

2 Chronicles 25:8
Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow."

2 Corinthians 4:9
persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.