Quotes about Rebellion
Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?
— Hosea 11:5
My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
— Hosea 11:7
Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
— Hosea 13:2
You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.
— Hosea 13:9
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
— Hosea 13:12
Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
— Hosea 13:16
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
— Hosea 14:9
“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
— Amos 2:12
“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
— Amos 4:4
“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:9
“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:11
All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”
— Amos 9:10