Quotes About Fall

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horseís heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”

And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

And the LORD said, ëWho will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?í And one suggested this, and another that.

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.í”

And the LORD said, ëWho will entice Ahab king of Israel to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?í And one suggested this, and another that.

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.

When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.

There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.

They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.

For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.