Quotes About Reflection

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.

Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.

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

I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.

Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.

So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and told me to declare that this is what the LORD says: “That is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your minds.

“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me.

They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,í declares the Lord GOD.”

And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.