Quotes About Warning

You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ëBehold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.í

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,

saying, ëHear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potterís jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.

This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,

But Jeremiah answered, “You are to tell Zedekiah that

I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.í

Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ëBehold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”

I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.í”

But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.í”

I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.

He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.

I warned you when you were secure. You said, ëI will not listen.í This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.

I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.