Quotes About Destiny

Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?

all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;

As for me, here I am in your hands; do to me what you think is good and right.

But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the hands of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.

And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you will go to Babylon.

Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there among the people.

“Here he is,” replied King Zedekiah. “He is in your hands, since the king can do nothing to stop you.”

then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.

Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”

He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.

For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.

I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elamís exiles will not go.

Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.

And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,

Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—

However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

The sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished, to be placed in the hand of the slayer.

“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same land. And make a signpost where the road branches off to each city.