Quotes About Rejection

He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.

Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ëWhat is the burden of the LORD?í you are to say to them, ëWhat burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.í

therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.

And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.

and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!

This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israelís descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ëThe LORD has rejected the two families He had chosení? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore them from captivity and will have compassion on them.”

But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.

The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”

unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.

But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.í

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.