Quotes about Survival

As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?

However, the line of Korah did not die out.

For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.

For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?

He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.