Quotes About Loss

and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.

And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.

O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

Siseraís mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ëWhy is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?í

And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”

She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”

“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.