Quotes About Prophecy

Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.

There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ëCome, let us cut her off from nationhood.í You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

Moab will be shattered; her little ones will cry out.

The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.

Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.

Therefore behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will send to him wanderers, who will pour him out. They will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

Moabís calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly.

Judgment has come upon the high plain—upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,

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

upon Kerioth, Bozrah, and all the towns of Moab, those far and near.

The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.

For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.

Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.

Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.

Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.

For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.

“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: “Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!

Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.

Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.

“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will shatter Elamís bow, the mainstay of their might.