Quotes about Judgment

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents;

when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”

On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.