Quotes About Consequence

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they exiled a whole population, delivering them up to Edom.

So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”

Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.

“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.

He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.

On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.

Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

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.

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

Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

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.

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.í

I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”

And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.

Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”

And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ëYou shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.í When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”