Quotes About Lord

This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ëWe are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.í

Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.

I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.

Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.

Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORDís vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.

The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.

The earth quakes and writhes because the LORDís intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.

Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the LORD.

You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.

and say, ëO LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.í

And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.

The LORDís anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: ëBlessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!í

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.