Quotes about Fortresses

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.

“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”

Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”

All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!

Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah

He also built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.

May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”

Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

He will attack the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him, making them rulers over many and distributing the land for a price.

Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.