-
Lamentations 4:5
Those who used to eat delicacies are destitute in the streets; those who were reared in purple garments huddle in garbage heaps.
-
Romans 6:19-21
I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness.So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
-
Psalms 142:4
Look to the right and see: no one stands up for me; there is no refuge for me; no one cares about me.
-
Jonah 2:2-8
I called to the Lord in my distress, and He answered me. I cried out for help in the belly of Sheol; You heard my voice.You threw me into the depths, into the heart of the seas, and the current overcame me. All Your breakers and Your billows swept over me.But I said: I have been banished from Your sight, yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.The waters engulfed me up to the neck; the watery depths overcame me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.I sank to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever! But You raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!As my life was fading away, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came to You, to Your holy temple.Those who cling to worthless idols forsake faithful love,
-
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. His deceived mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself, or say,“ Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
-
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.
-
Psalms 73:22
I was stupid and didn’t understand; I was an unthinking animal toward You.
-
Isaiah 57:3
But come here, you sons of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!
-
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and violence. He makes a covenant with Assyria, and olive oil is carried to Egypt.