Quotes About Identity

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”

Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?

The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ëAs surely as the LORD livesí—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.

This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”

So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist.

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.

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.í

The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.

Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.í

Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that

Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?

“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”