Quotes About Reflection

Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.

Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,

As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

But the LORD replied, “Have you any right to be angry?”

Then Jonah left the city and sat down east of it, where he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.

Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

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

My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.í”

The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.

Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ëNineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?í Where can I find comforters for you?”

This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth:

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ëThe LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.í

Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,

“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

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.

ëWho is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?í

Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORDís temple was laid—consider carefully:

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëTurn now from your evil ways and deeds.í But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”