Quotes about Crisis
So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
- 2 Kings 6:25
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
- 2 Kings 6:26
Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’
- 2 Kings 6:28
So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”
- 2 Kings 6:29
to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
- 2 Kings 19:3
Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.
- 2 Kings 25:26
At that time King Ahaz sent for help from the king of Assyria.
- 2 Chronicles 28:16
But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
- Psalm 106:30
Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
- Proverbs 25:19
Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
- Jeremiah 4:29
Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
- Lamentations 3:47
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
- Lamentations 3:54