Quotes About Significance

Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.

Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”

He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.

His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.í”

So I asked them: ëWhat is this high place to which you go?í (And to this day it is called Bamah.)

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

On that day messengers will go out from Me in ships to frighten Cush out of complacency. Anguish will come upon them on the day of Egyptís doom. For it is indeed coming.

I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others, with eyes and with a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.

The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been spoken is true. Now you must seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.”

Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.

On that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be as great as the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.

They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who bears this name.”

It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.

This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so they called that field in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven.