Quotes About Exile

By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.

And in that day a great ramís horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

Then you will say in your heart, ëWho has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?í”

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.

I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege.

The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.

So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.í

For this is what the LORD says: ëI will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.

Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.

but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.”

I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.

Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëLike these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.

ëThey will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,í declares the LORD. ëThen I will bring them back and restore them to this place.í”

And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,í declares the LORD, ëfor I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.í”