Quotes about Catastrophe

Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.

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.’

How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail

For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”

You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.

The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,

Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”

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?”

The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.