Quotes about Faithlessness

therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.

He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.

Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,

So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.

And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”

How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.

So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”

After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.

Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.