Quotes About Resilience

These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

All our enemies open their mouths against us.

Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.

the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house.

Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”

Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.í”

When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.