Quotes about War
Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.
— Proverbs 24:6
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
— Ecclesiastes 3:8
As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
— Ecclesiastes 8:8
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
— Ecclesiastes 9:18
Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
— Isaiah 2:4
Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.
— Isaiah 7:1
Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
— Isaiah 8:9
Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
— Isaiah 13:4
“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
— Isaiah 19:2
All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
— Isaiah 29:7
You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
— Isaiah 36:5
“Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”
— Jeremiah 21:2