Quotes About Truth

“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations

Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ëThis is what the Lord GOD says,í when the LORD has not spoken.

Then the LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.í

So I answered them, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

on that day a fugitive will come and tell you the news.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

I will execute great vengeance against them with furious reproof. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay My vengeance upon them.í”

And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ëI am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.í Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,

Will you still say, ëI am a god,í in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.

Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

So I will execute judgment on Egypt, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

Yet your people say, ëThe way of the Lord is not just.í But it is their way that is not just.