Quotes about Guidance

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:

If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.

I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.

But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”