Quotes About Worship

Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.

But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”

“Moreover,” said the women, “when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbandsí knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”

“As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “Hear the word of the LORD, all those of Judah who are in the land of Egypt.

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ëWe will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.í Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!

Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.

upon Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,

In Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.

How is the city of praise not forsaken, the town that brings Me joy?

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ëBabylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.í

They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.

“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORDís house.”

They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.

Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.

The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.

Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: ëBlessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!í

So I got up and went out to the plain, and behold, the glory of the LORD was present there, like the glory I had seen by the River Kebar, and I fell facedown.

Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.