Quotes about Rebellion

All this is for the transgression of Jacob and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.

Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”

She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

“The LORD was very angry with your fathers.

They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”

At this, one of Jesus’ companions drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.

“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”