Quotes About Rejection

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.

For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ëMy Name shall be there.í”

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”

But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders

For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.

And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ëI never saw you.í

Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.

then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

They said to God, ëDepart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?í

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.