Quotes about Loss
Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.
— Deuteronomy 28:31
Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.
— Deuteronomy 28:32
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
— Deuteronomy 28:38
You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.
— Deuteronomy 28:40
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
— Deuteronomy 28:41
The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
— Deuteronomy 34:8
He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”
— Judges 18:24
And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
— Judges 20:44
That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
— Judges 20:46
And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
— Judges 21:6
The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.
— Judges 21:15
The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
— Ruth 1:2