Quotes About Vision

And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me,

I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.

And as they watch, lift your bags to your shoulder and take them out at dusk; cover your face so that you cannot see the land. For I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.”

And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land.

“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ëThe days go by, and every vision failsí?

Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëI will put an end to this proverb, and in Israel they will no longer recite it.í But say to them: ëThe days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled.

For there will be no more false visions or flattering divinations within the house of Israel,

“Son of man, take note that the house of Israel is saying, ëThe vision that he sees is for many years from now; he prophesies about the distant future.í

This is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, yet have seen nothing.

They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ëThus declares the LORD,í when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

Havenít you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you proclaim, ëThus declares the LORD,í even though I have not spoken?

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.

those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.í

therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will deliver My people from your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”

and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëA great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers of many colors, came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.

The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.

He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry.

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.

In visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose southern slope was a structure that resembled a city.

So He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze. He was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.

“Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”

And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the manís hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.

Then he came to the gate facing east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.