Quotes about Loss
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- Lamentations 1:19
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
- Lamentations 2:11
My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
- Lamentations 3:17
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
- Lamentations 5:2
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
- Lamentations 5:3
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
- Lamentations 5:15
Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 16:39
When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
- Ezekiel 19:5
They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.
- Ezekiel 23:26
They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity
- Ezekiel 23:29
“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.
- Ezekiel 24:16
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I had been commanded.
- Ezekiel 24:18