Quotes About Consequence

The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.

Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”

I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.í”

And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”

This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.í

I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.í”

And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ëWhy has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?í

I warned you when you were secure. You said, ëI will not listen.í This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.

In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.

I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.í”

This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.

And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

The peaceful meadows have been silenced because of the LORDís burning anger.

And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ëIf you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,