Quotes about Woe
Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.
- Hosea 7:13
Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
- Hosea 9:12
Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Amos 6:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- Micah 2:1
Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
- Micah 7:1
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
- Nahum 3:1
Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
- Habakkuk 2:6
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
- Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
- Habakkuk 2:15
Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”
- Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”
- Zephaniah 2:5
Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
- Zephaniah 3:1