Quotes about Prophecy
“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 23:32
Thus you are to say to the prophet: ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
— Jeremiah 23:37
But if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,
— Jeremiah 23:38
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
— Jeremiah 24:4
And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”
— Jeremiah 24:10
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
— Jeremiah 25:8
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
— Jeremiah 25:9
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
— Jeremiah 25:11
I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
— Jeremiah 25:13
This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
— Jeremiah 25:15
And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
— Jeremiah 25:16
“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’
— Jeremiah 25:27