Quotes About Judgment

I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.

The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.

“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ëAlas! Alas!í in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.

You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.

The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacobís pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”