Quotes About Loss

But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.

Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

Bring out your baggage for exile by day, as they watch. Then in the evening, as they watch, go out like those who go into exile.

So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my bags for exile by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall by hand. I took my belongings out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder as they watched.

Even when it was whole, it could not be made useful. How much less can it ever be useful when the fire has consumed it and charred it!

You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.

Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.

When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.

With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.