Quotes About Judgment

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBecause you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,

therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.í

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëBecause Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”

therefore I will indeed expose the flank of Moab beginning with its frontier cities—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim—the glory of the land.

So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.í

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

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

I will take My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.í

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.

I will execute great vengeance against them with furious reproof. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay My vengeance upon them.í”

“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ëAha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,í

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBehold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,

and the villages on her mainland will be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.í

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBehold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.

The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.í

This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ëWill not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?

All the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled over you.

Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.Ӓ

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëWhen I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,