Quotes About Hope

upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,

On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.

Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.

Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.

Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

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

“Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,” declares the LORD.

“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.

They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ëWe are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.í

In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israelís guilt, but there will be none, and for Judahís sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.

As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”

Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year—and then another the next year—of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.

You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”

Then you are to say, ëIn the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.í” Here end the words of Jeremiah.

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

Then he put out Zedekiahís eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.