Quotes About Change

“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.

I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.

“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.

I will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.

Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.

How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.

A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.

Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.

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.

Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

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.

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ëBehold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.í

Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

“Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ëYou have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.í

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ëThe fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.í

but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.