Quotes About Wisdom

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëBecause you have not obeyed My words,

As for me, here I am in your hands; do to me what you think is good and right.

Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”

Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people,

Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say, ëYou must not serve the king of Babylon,í for they are prophesying to you a lie.

Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ëLook, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.í They are prophesying to you a lie.

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

Then the prophet Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD.

Nevertheless, listen now to this message I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.

As for the prophet who prophesies peace, only if the word of the prophet comes true will the prophet be recognized as one the LORD has truly sent.”

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.

For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”

Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”

You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that

So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

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

Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

In their sight I instructed Baruch,

the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: