Quotes about Survival
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
— Lamentations 3:53
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
— Lamentations 3:54
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
— Lamentations 4:9
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
— Lamentations 5:4
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
— Lamentations 5:9
“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
— Ezekiel 4:15
Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.
— Ezekiel 6:8
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
— Ezekiel 19:13
So the decree went out that the wise men were to be executed, and men went to look for Daniel and his friends to execute them.
— Daniel 2:13
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
— Amos 7:2
Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
— Amos 7:5
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
— Amos 8:13