Quotes About Accountability

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,

ëMy people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!

Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ëWoe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?í

Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.í

Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.

“What is it?” I asked. And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”

When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.

You also say: ëOh, what a nuisance!í And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.

Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.

“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ëHow do we rob You?í In tithes and offerings.

You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.

Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.