Quotes About Loss

All the nations who know you are appalled over you. You have come to a horrible end and will be no more.í”

They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earthís ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëOn the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.

This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”

“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:

Assyria is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”

I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ëYou devour men and deprive your nation of its children,í

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ëOur bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.í

He called out in a loud voice: ëCut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.

While the words were still in the kingís mouth, a voice came from heaven: “It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.

After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to seal the agreement. But his daughter will not retain her position of power, nor will his strength endure. At that time she will be given up, along with her royal escort and her father and the one who supported her.

Those who eat from his provisions will seek to destroy him; his army will be swept away, and many will fall slain.

Ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and rage against the holy covenant and do damage. So he will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ëI will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.í

I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.

The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.