Quotes About Faith

“Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.

And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.

Blessed is he who waits and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.

But as for you, go on your way until the end. You will rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”

This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel.

Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”

After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son.

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ëYou are not My people,í they will be called ësons of the living God.í

“Say of your brothers, ëMy people,í and of your sisters, ëMy loved one.í

There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

“On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.

And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ëNo Compassion.í I will say to those called ëNot My People,í ëYou are My people,í and they will say, ëYou are my God.í”

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.

You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

The whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.