Quotes About Words

Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heartís delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.

and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,

But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”

“Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”

But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each manís word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.

I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and officials heard his words, and the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah found out about it, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.

I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëWrite in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.

These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ëWill you not accept discipline and obey My words?í declares the LORD.

“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.

And Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.

When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”

And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribeís knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.

Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.

“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiahís dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,

Then He said to me, “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them.

“Son of man,” He added, “listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.