16 Bible Verses about Young People Suffering

Young lions go hungry and may starve, but those who seek Jehovah's help have all the good things they need.

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

I am full of the wrath of Jehovah. I am weary with holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the street and on the gathering of young men together. For both husband and wife will be taken, the aged and the very old.

Death has come through our windows and entered our palaces. Death has cut down the children in the streets and the young men in the market places.

Her enemies are at ease and her foes have become her masters. Jehovah (YHWH) sends her sorrow because of the great number of her sins. Young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

Jehovah is upright. I have rebelled against him. Listen all you people and see my pain. My virgins and my young men are taken away as prisoners.

Jehovah makes fun of my men of war. He gathers men against me to send destruction on my young men. The virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of Jehovah.

My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment. My heart is pulled out of me to the ground because my people are destroyed. Because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Rise up! Cry out in the night at the beginning of the night watches. Let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down starving in 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 cry out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

The young men crushed the grain, and the boys fell under the wood.

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

The young men from Heliopolis and Bubastis will die in battle, and people from these cities will go into exile.

I sent a plague among you just as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword and I captured your horses. I made the stench of your camp come up even into your nostrils and yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.

In that day the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.

Blessed is the one who grabs your little children and smashes them against a rock.