Quotes about Prophecy
Then the word of the LORD came to me:
— Jeremiah 13:8
“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 13:9
then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 13:13
“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.
— Jeremiah 14:14
Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
— Jeremiah 14:15
And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
— Jeremiah 14:16
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
— Jeremiah 16:1
“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
— Jeremiah 16:4
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
— Jeremiah 16:9
Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
— Jeremiah 16:14
But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
— Jeremiah 16:16
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
— Jeremiah 18:7