Quotes about Judgment
But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
— Jeremiah 7:19
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
— Jeremiah 7:20
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
— Jeremiah 7:26
For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
— Jeremiah 7:30
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
— Jeremiah 7:31
So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
— Jeremiah 7:32
The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
— Jeremiah 7:33
They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
— Jeremiah 8:2
Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
— Jeremiah 8:12
I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
— Jeremiah 8:13
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
— Jeremiah 8:14
“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 8:17