Quotes About Faith

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:

Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.

This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.

They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.

Like scarecrows in a cucumber patch, their idols cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm, and neither can they do any good.”

There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Thus you are to tell them: “These gods, who have made neither the heavens nor the earth, will perish from this earth and from under these heavens.”

Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

I know, O LORD, that a manís way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

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

You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,

which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ëObey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.í

This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.

Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.

For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ëObey My voice.í

And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ëI am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.

Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.