Quotes about Survival
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
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
- Lamentations 5:4
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
- Lamentations 5:9
“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
- Ezekiel 4:15
Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.
- Ezekiel 6:8
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
- Ezekiel 19:13
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.
- Daniel 2:13
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
Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
- Amos 7:5
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
- Amos 8:13
Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”
- Zechariah 11:9
And in all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it.
- Zechariah 13:8