Quotes About Survival

The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.

The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.

when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,

then the raging waters would have swept us away.

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;

the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.

There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.

Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.

For they flee from the sword—the sword that is drawn—from the bow that is bent, and from the stress of battle.

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earthís dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?

A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.

Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”