Quotes About Redemption

upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,

Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.

Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.

In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israelís guilt, but there will be none, and for Judahís sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.

As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.

On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.

So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the kingís table for the rest of his life.

Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.

My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of Godís wrath.

He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.

How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potterís hands!