Quotes About Communication

“Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:

Then the word of the LORD came to me:

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,

But Jeremiah answered, “You are to tell Zedekiah that

I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.

This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother: ëWhat has the LORD answered?í or ëWhat has the LORD spoken?í

Thus you are to say to the prophet: ëWhat has the LORD answered you?í and ëWhat has the LORD spoken?í

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

Give them a message from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to relay to their masters:

Nevertheless, listen now to this message I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.

The letter was entrusted to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It stated:

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”

You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that

this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:

(Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time: