Quotes About Divine

Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!

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

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëBehold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.í”

The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,

“Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”

And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.

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”

This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,

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.

And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ëWhy has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?í

“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.

O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.

Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëLike these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.

ëBut to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,í declares the LORD, ëso you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.í

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëBecause you have not obeyed My words,

For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.í”

So I took the cup from the LORDís hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,

“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ëDrink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.í