Quotes about Prophecy
The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
— Jeremiah 34:2
And you yourself will not escape his grasp, but will surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You will see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face; and you will go to Babylon.
— Jeremiah 34:3
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;
— Jeremiah 34:4
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
— Jeremiah 34:12
I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
— Jeremiah 34:20
Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
— Jeremiah 34:22
Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
— Jeremiah 35:17
Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.
— Jeremiah 36:30
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:
— Jeremiah 37:6
“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt.
— Jeremiah 37:7
Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
— Jeremiah 37:19
This is what the LORD says: This city will surely be delivered into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.”
— Jeremiah 38:3