Quotes About Despair

Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.

which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.

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.

So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

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

The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.

Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

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

The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.í”

Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Oh, Lord GOD, will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?”

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered.

No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.

When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

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!

Those near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil.

Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.

They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.í”

“Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Wail, ëAlas for that day!í

They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.