16 Bible Verses about Young People Suffering

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

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

Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the squares.

Her adversaries have become the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

The Lord has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he has called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord has trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

My eyes do fail with tears, my soul is troubled, my heart is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the infants faint in the streets of the city.

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it unto them.

They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

I have sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD.

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

Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones against the stones.