Quotes About Suffering

You will drink it and drain it; you will dash it to pieces, and tear your breasts. For I have spoken,í declares the Lord GOD.

The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.í

Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëI am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.í

Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.

They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.

They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

ëI will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, in countries you do not know.

Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ëOur transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?í

I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ëYou devour men and deprive your nation of its children,í

His power will be great, but it will not be his own. He will cause terrible destruction and succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy the mighty men along with the holy people.

You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.

Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.

Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.

Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.

Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.