Quotes about Deception
“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
— Isaiah 37:10
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
— Isaiah 41:29
Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
— Isaiah 44:10
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
— Isaiah 44:20
They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.
— Isaiah 46:7
You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
— Isaiah 47:10
“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
— Isaiah 57:3
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
— Isaiah 59:3
They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
— Isaiah 59:5
Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 3:10
But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 3:20
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”
— Jeremiah 4:10