Quotes About Warning

Now there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.

For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish.

For I have not sent them, declares the LORD, and yet they are prophesying falsely in My name; therefore I will banish you, and you will perish—you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ëI am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.í”

this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten.

I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.

“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,

Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.

The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.

In Jerusalem, then, Jeremiah the prophet relayed all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah

I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëBehold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.í”

Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ëWhy have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?í

I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”

But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ëThe Chaldeans will go away for good,í for they will not!

Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ëThe king of Babylon will not come against you or this landí?

Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people:

This is what the LORD says: This city will surely be delivered into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.”

But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. They will burn it down, and you yourself will not escape their grasp.í”

But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the LORD has shown me: