Quotes About Betrayal

My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ëYour wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.í”

But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!

All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.

On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.

Therefore, send farewell gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel.

In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ëWe are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.í”

But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.

You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.