Quotes About Community

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,

They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ëGet up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.í

Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?

My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressorís sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.

Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

They are saying, ëIs not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.í

Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me.

you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.

He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighborís wife.

He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat down before me.

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.