Quotes About Consequences

Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?

Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.

The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.

The words of a wise manís mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him.

Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich even in your bedroom, for a bird of the air may carry your words, and a winged creature may report your speech.

Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

But rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the LORD will perish.

Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.

For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—

The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.