Quotes About Journey

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.í”

Instead they will say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.í For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.

You will never return to the land for which you long.”

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”

For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ëArise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!í”

Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!

“Set up the roadmarks, establish the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.

The measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.

Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.í

Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there among the people.

But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”

And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, near Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt

So they entered the land of Egypt because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, and they went as far as Tahpanhes.

They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ëGet up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.í

For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:

They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.

He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.

In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.

Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.

As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.