Quotes About Spirituality

They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.

Israelís arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.

Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.

They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.

They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.

But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.

When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.

This is the word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel:

Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.