Quotes About Life

The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.

For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.

Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

Shall I bring a baby to the point of birth and not deliver it?” says the LORD. “Or will I who deliver close the womb?” says your God.

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

I know, O LORD, that a manís way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”

Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers.

Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.

because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ëBehold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.

Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.