Quotes About Chaos

Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.

Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.

Then four great beasts came up out of the sea, each one different from the others:

The invader will do as he pleases, and no one will stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land, with destruction in his hand.

But news from the east and the north will alarm him, and he will go out with great fury to destroy many and devote them to destruction.

Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.

They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.

So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ramís horn.

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.

He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.

The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.

Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—

O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.

the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.í

Then He told them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

Meanwhile the assembly was in turmoil. Some were shouting one thing and some another, and most of them did not even know why they were there.

As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air,

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.