Quotes About Judgment

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morningís light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.

In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ëWe are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.í”

Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

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 night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

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.

Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.

“In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.

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

I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.

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

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

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahabís house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

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

They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.

Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.