Quotes About Desperation

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

The nursing infantís tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.í

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

How can I, your servant, speak with you, my lord? Now I have no strength, nor is any breath left in me.”

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.

Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.

People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.

The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”

She said to herself, “If only I touch His cloak, I will be healed.”

And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”

The woman came and knelt before Him. “Lord, help me!” she said.

“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.