Quotes about Devastation

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

Every other institution in society is built on the family. If the family disintegrates, those institutions that depend on strong families will disintegrate as well. Once that happens, there is no law you can pass that will make up for the devastation. There is no program you can institute that will fix what happens to people when a home is shattered. There is no politician you can elect who can bring harmony and social order when the family is decimated.

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

It is about moving from ideas about merely being sustainable to ones that include regenerating areas devastated by agriculture, mining, and other destructive activities. It is about revolution. The transition from a death economy to a life economy is truly about a change in consciousness — a consciousness revolution.

Rejection—It may be a delay. It may be a distraction. It may even be a devastation for a season but it is not your final destination.

but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.

The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.

And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.

when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.