Quotes About Consequences

And after I have vented My wrath against the wall and against those who whitewashed it, I will say to you: ëThe wall is gone, and so are those who whitewashed it—

You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen, you have killed those who should not have died and spared those who should not have lived.

I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,í declares the Lord GOD.”

You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!

You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.

You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

Woe! Woe to you, declares the Lord GOD. And in addition to all your other wickedness,

At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.

You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.

And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.

Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.

Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?

As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.

So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them.

Did you not treat your sister Sodom as an object of scorn in the day of your pride,

You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!í

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ëThe fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edgeí?

Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,

though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighborís wife.

He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.