Quotes About Betrayal

They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,

ëAs surely as I live,í declares the Lord GOD, ëhe will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!í

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ëAs surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.

See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.

Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.

One man commits an abomination with his neighborís wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own fatherís daughter.

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,

and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.

She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.

Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.

But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.