Quotes About Desperation

Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our fatherís line.”

Thus both of Lotís daughters became pregnant by their father.

Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagarís shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.

she removed her widowís garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”

“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.

Now the famine was still severe in the land.

And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.

“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.

There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.

When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”

So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.

“Depart from me!” Pharaoh said to Moses. “Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die.”

So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”

You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.