Quotes about Desperation
All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
- Proverbs 19:7
Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.
- Isaiah 13:7
When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
- Isaiah 16:12
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
- Jeremiah 2:27
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- Jeremiah 19:9
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- Lamentations 1:19
See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
- Lamentations 1:20
Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.
- Lamentations 3:29
The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
- Lamentations 4:4
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
- Lamentations 4:9
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 4:10
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
- Lamentations 4:17