Quotes About Despair

He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.

Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

They keep saying to those who despise Me, ëThe LORD says that you will have peace,í and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ëNo harm will come to you.í

And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.

Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the kingís son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”

Then he put out Zedekiahís eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.

On the second day after the murder of Gedaliah, when no one yet knew about it,

The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.

For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

“Whoever flees the panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.

Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.

“For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.

Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edomís mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

The king of Babylon has heard the report, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

Then he put out Zedekiahís eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.

Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.