Quotes about Desperation
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
- Lamentations 5:10
When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
- Hosea 5:13
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
- Amos 7:2
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
- Amos 8:13
Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”
- Jonah 1:11
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
- Jonah 2:5
and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”
- Mark 5:23
She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.
- Mark 5:26
While He was still speaking, messengers from the house of Jairus arrived and said, “Your daughter is dead; why bother the Teacher anymore?”
- Mark 5:35
Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet.
- Mark 7:25
Just then a synagogue leader named Jairus came and fell at Jesus’ feet. He begged Him to come to his house,
- Luke 8:41
because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,
- Luke 8:42