Quotes about Conflict
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’
— Joel 3:10
But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
— Micah 2:8
This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
— Micah 3:5
And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men.
— Micah 5:5
For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
— Micah 7:6
Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—
— Nahum 3:3
Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
— Habakkuk 1:3
With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.
— Habakkuk 3:14
For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.
— Zechariah 8:10
Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
— Zechariah 11:14
On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured.
— Zechariah 12:3
So on that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
— Zechariah 12:9