Quotes About Loss

I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a womanís stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.

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

Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?

So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.