Quotes About Conflict

“The noise of battle is in the land—the noise of great destruction.

Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.

This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer.

Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”

Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year—and then another the next year—of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.

Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.

Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.

it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.

ëSo then, son of man, prophesy and strike your hands together. Let the sword strike two times, even three. It is a sword that slays, a sword of great slaughter closing in on every side!

Slash to the right; set your blade to the left—wherever your blade is directed.

Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.

In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.

Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ëI will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—

The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëBecause Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëBecause the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBehold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

He will slaughter the villages of your mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp to your walls, and raise his shields against you.