16 Bible Verses about Young People Suffering

The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.

For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.

Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.

The young men of On and Pi-beseth will be put to the sword: and these towns will be taken away prisoners.

I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.

Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.