Quotes About Desperation

So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkeyís head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of doveís dung sold for five shekels of silver.

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”

Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ëGive up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.í

So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ëGive up your son, that we may eat him.í But she had hidden her son.”

He announced, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders through this day!”

Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?

So they arose at twilight and went to the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the outskirts of the camp, there was not a man to be found.

Thus the Arameans had arisen and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents and horses and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had run for their lives.

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the kingís garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.

When all the Israelites in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.

Although Ahaz had taken a portion from the house of the LORD, from the royal palace, and from the princes and had presented it to the king of Assyria, it did not help him.

There the archers shot King Josiah, who said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded!”

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.