Justin says I should get out more, but I came here to take a break from the miseries of social life.
Why were these miseries falling on the empire?
One day, almost overcome with scruples, he was tempted to end his miseries by suicide.
It gained nothing in the first, lost much in the second, and in the third, the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), suffered renewed miseries.
The people simply expected deliverance from their miseries and burdens by the intervention of Yahweh, because He had chosen Israel for His people.