Quotes About Redemption

This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ëDo not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,í so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.

You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.

For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

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.

This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?

“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ëI will not serve!í Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.

“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?

For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.

Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.

So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?

“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.

You are to speak this word to them: ëMy eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”

Instead they will say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.í For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.

But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.