Quotes About Purpose

“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”

Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

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?

I know, O LORD, that a manís way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

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

So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.

Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”

The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.

I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

“Go down at once to the potterís house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”

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.

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.

By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this.

In their sight I instructed Baruch,

“Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:

Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their men.

Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”

and he summoned Johanan son of Kareah, all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest.

He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.