Quotes About Trust

So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

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

Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.

A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ëOur gods!í to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?

All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.

Therefore, send farewell gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel.

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.

“In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.

I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.

Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.

But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.

For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.