Quotes About Fate

The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.”

Moabís calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.

Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.

But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.

For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.

I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!

And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.

“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.

With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.

The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the officials of Judah.

Then he put out Zedekiahís eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land.

But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ëLet a sword pass through it,í so that I cut off from it both man and beast,

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered.

Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.í”

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

Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.