Quotes About Heritage

Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.

I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.

So they will hang on him all the glory of his fatherís house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

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.”

“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.

One will say, ëI belong to the LORD,í another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ëThe LORDís,í and will take the name of Israel.”

Woe to him who says to his father, ëWhat have you begotten?í or to his mother, ëWhat have you brought forth?í”

I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.

Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:

then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.