Quotes About Vulnerability

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.

For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.

I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:

Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who does not control his temper.

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,

I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?

I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.

against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.