Quotes About Guilt

We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ëWhy has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?í

For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.

But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ëWe are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.í

In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israelís guilt, but there will be none, and for Judahís sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.

For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”

The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.

But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

It will seem like a false omen to the eyes of those who have sworn allegiance to him, but it will draw attention to their guilt and take them captive.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBecause you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds—because you have come to remembrance—you shall be taken in hand.

you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëBecause Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,

They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”

Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ëAs surely as the LORD lives!í

Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.

Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.

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.

Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ëAs surely as your god lives, O Dan,í or, ëAs surely as the way of Beersheba livesí—they will fall, never to rise again.”