Quotes About Loss

I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.

Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.í

The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.

I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ëHow devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.í”

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.

My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.

They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORDís flock has been taken captive.