Quotes About Accountability

I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:

Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.

Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,

Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your childrenís children.

As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets

Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

you say, ëI am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.í Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ëI have not sinned.í

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”

And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their guilt and call their sins to account.”

When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ëWhy has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?í

For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.