Quotes About Defeat

You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.

The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.

The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.

He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.

You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.

Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egyptís shame.

All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.í”

And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

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

concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:

Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.

“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.

The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”

Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.

Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them—the time of their punishment.

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylonís homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.