Quotes About Warning

All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”

Then Zedekiah warned Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about this conversation, or you will die.

“Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëI am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes.

and now the LORD has fulfilled it; He has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed His voice, this thing has happened to you.

and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.

then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëIf you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there,

then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëJust as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.í

The LORD has told you, O remnant of Judah, ëDo not go to Egypt.í Know for sure that I have warned you today!

Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”

Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ëYou must not go to Egypt to reside there.í

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.

“Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it in Memphis and Tahpanhes: ëTake your positions and prepare yourself, for the sword devours those around you.í

Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.

Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.

This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail

A voice cries out from Horonaim: ëDevastation and great destruction!í

The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.

Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

Moabís calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.

Judgment has come upon the high plain—upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.

Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.

Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.