Quotes About Faith

Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

“In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.

Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,

and if you can swear, ëAs surely as the LORD lives,í in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”

Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ëYou will have peace,í while a sword is at our throats.”

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

Although they say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives,í they are swearing falsely.”

Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.

The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”

Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.

Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.

Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.

They have not said in their hearts, ëLet us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.í

A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.