Quotes About Value

“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?

Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils?

No, it is cast into the fire for fuel. The fire devours both ends, and the middle is charred. Can it be useful for anything?

Even when it was whole, it could not be made useful. How much less can it ever be useful when the fire has consumed it and charred it!

No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.

I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.

I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.

So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!

“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.

The men of Beth-togarmah exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.

Aram was your customer because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.

and casks of wine from Izal for your wares. Wrought iron, cassia, and sweet cane were exchanged for your merchandise.

In your marketplace they traded with you fine garments of blue, embroidered work, and multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted and knotted.

The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.

TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.

Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.

And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.