Quotes About Judgment

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.

This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.

The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”

The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.

It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.

Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!

“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.

I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.

Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ëNineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?í Where can I find comforters for you?”

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

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

All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!

For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”

Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.

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

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

You will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORDís right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory.

Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.