Quotes About Prophecy

The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.

The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”

For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.

Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.

They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylonís time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.

In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!

The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.

This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moabís splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”

This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.