16 Bible Verses about Young People Suffering

The young lions lack, and suffer hunger; but those who seek Jehovah 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 Jehovah; I am weary with holding in; I will pour it out on the children in the street, and on the circle of young men together. For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with fullness of days.

For death has come up into our windows, and has entered into our houses, to cut off the children from outside and the young men from the streets.

Her enemies have become as chief; her haters are at ease; for Jehovah has afflicted her for the multitude of her sins. Her children have gone, captive before the enemy.

Jehovah is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. I beseech you, all peoples, hear and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men went into exile.

Jehovah has trampled all my mighty ones in my midst; He has called a gathering against me to crush my young men. Jehovah has trod the virgin daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

My eyes fail with tears; my inward parts ferment; my liver is poured on the ground for the ruin of the daughter of my people, in that the children and the babies faint in the streets of the city.

Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street.

The suckling's tongue cleaves to his palate in thirst; the young children ask bread; there is no breaking to them.

They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at the wood.

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

The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into exile.

I have sent the plague among you in the way of Egypt; I have slain your young men with the sword, and have taken away your horses. And I have made the stench of your camps to come up into your nostrils; yet you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.

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

Blessed is he who seizes and dashes your little ones against the stones.