Quotes About Youth

From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

But I am full of the LORDís wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

I warned you when you were secure. You said, ëI will not listen.í This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.

After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.í

For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.

Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.

For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.

They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.

It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.

Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?

But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.

She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.

Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

young men without blemish, handsome, gifted in all wisdom, knowledgeable, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the kingís palace—and to teach them the language and literature of the Chaldeans.