Quotes About Judgment

I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.

They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.

Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.

But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.

They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.

Put the ramís horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

But Israel has rejected good; an enemy will pursue him.

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.