Quotes About Change

My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets up others in their place.

Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.í

Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.

For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your fatherís house,

God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.

As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,

May his days be few; may another take his position.

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