Quotes About Consequences

For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.

All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.

But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.

Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds.

I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me.”

Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.

You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?

Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ëWoe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?í

Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.

Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.

“You too, O Cushites, will be slain by My sword.”

You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

And a similar plague will strike the horses and mules, camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.