Quotes About Peace

Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.

The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.

Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ëYou will have peace,í while a sword is at our throats.”

They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ëPeace, peace,í when there is no peace at all.

They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ëPeace, peace,í when there is no peace at all.

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.

“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ëYou will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.í”

Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.

They keep saying to those who despise Me, ëThe LORD says that you will have peace,í and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ëNo harm will come to you.í

The peaceful meadows have been silenced because of the LORDís burning anger.

As for the prophet who prophesies peace, only if the word of the prophet comes true will the prophet be recognized as one the LORD has truly sent.”

Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.

As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.

This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”

At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ëAlas, O master!í For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”

Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.