Quotes About Israel

So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.

Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.

I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.

These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.

So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael to consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.

I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.

Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.

Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.

“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.

The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacobís pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”

“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”