Quotes About Sacrifice

The captain of the guard also took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.

As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.

The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes, and you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people.

Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.

When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.

But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”

“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barberís razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.

But you are to take a few strands of hair and secure them in the folds of your garment.

Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.