16 Bible Verses about Young People Suffering

The young lions do lack and suffer hunger;
But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing.

It is good for a man that he should bear
The yoke in his youth.

But I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
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 shall be taken,
The aged and the very old.

For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the children from the streets,
The young men from the town squares.

Her adversaries have become her masters,
Her enemies prosper;
For the Lord has caused her grief
Because of the multitude of her transgressions;
Her little ones have gone away
As captives before the adversary.

“The Lord is righteous;
For I have rebelled against His command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my pain;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

“The Lord has rejected all my strong men
In my midst;
He has called an appointed time against me
To crush my young men;
The Lord has trodden as in a wine press
The virgin daughter of Judah.

My eyes fail because of tears,
My spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is poured out on the earth
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
When little ones and infants faint
In the streets of the city.

“Arise, cry aloud in the night
At the beginning of the night watches;
Pour out your heart like water
Before the presence of the Lord;
Lift up your hands to Him
For the life of your little ones
Who are faint because of hunger
At the head of every street.”

The tongue of the infant cleaves
To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;
The little ones ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.

Young men worked at the grinding mill,
And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

Elders are gone from the gate,
Young men from their music.

“The young men of On and of Pi-beseth
Will fall by the sword,
And the women will go into captivity.

“I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt;
I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses,
And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

“In that day the beautiful virgins
And the young men will faint from thirst.

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones
Against the rock.