Quotes About Devotion

His mouth is most sweet; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.

Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.

When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?

Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.

They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.

In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near her border.

O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion, but Your name alone do we confess.

Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.

When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?

So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.

You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”

They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.