Quotes About Fate

it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.

For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.í

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëWhen I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.

Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.

Now you are shattered by the seas in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and the people among you have gone down with you.

Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.í”

They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”

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

I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.

Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword.

I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.

But you too will be shattered and lie down among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.

Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëAs surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.

I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

So the decree went out that the wise men were to be executed, and men went to look for Daniel and his friends to execute them.

All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.

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.

Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.