Quotes about Crisis
Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’
— 2 Kings 6:28
So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”
— 2 Kings 6:29
to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
— 2 Kings 19:3
Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.
— 2 Kings 25:26
At that time King Ahaz sent for help from the king of Assyria.
— 2 Chronicles 28:16
But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
— Psalm 106:30
Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
— Proverbs 25:19
Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
— Jeremiah 4:29
Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
— Lamentations 3:47
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
— Lamentations 3:54
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
— Amos 8:11
Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”
— Jonah 1:11