Quotes About Loss

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

He struck their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

There on the willows we hung our harps,

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.

a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,