Quotes about Judgment
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
— Lamentations 2:8
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
— Lamentations 2:20
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
— Lamentations 3:34
to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
— Lamentations 3:36
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
— Lamentations 3:43
You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
— Lamentations 3:64
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
— Lamentations 4:8
The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
— Lamentations 4:11
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
— Lamentations 4:13
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
— Lamentations 4:14
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
— Lamentations 5:16
which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.
— Ezekiel 2:10