Quotes About Survival

All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.

I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORDís anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.

He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

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

The nursing infantís tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

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.

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”

Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.

The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant.

All his choice troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken.í

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.

He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.