Quotes About Suffering

For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”

Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

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

When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.

The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague.

They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

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.”

You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.

They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.

I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

Cry out and wail, O son of man, for the sword is wielded against My people; it is against all the princes of Israel! They are tossed to the sword with My people; therefore strike your thigh.

I will pour out My anger upon you; I will breathe the fire of My fury against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, skilled in destruction.

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.

And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant will be consumed by fire.