Quotes About Rebellion

My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.

All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.

Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.

Put the ramís horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.

Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”

You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.

Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.

You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahabís house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.

and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!