Quotes about Loss
And in the seventh month of that very year, the prophet Hananiah died.
— Jeremiah 28:17
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
— Jeremiah 31:15
How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
— Lamentations 1:1
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