Quotes about Israel
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
— Jeremiah 2:14
You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
— Jeremiah 2:31
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
— Jeremiah 3:6
She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
— Jeremiah 3:8
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
— Jeremiah 3:9
And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
— Jeremiah 3:11
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
— Jeremiah 3:12
In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
— Jeremiah 3:18
A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
— Jeremiah 3:21
“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
— Jeremiah 4:1
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 5:11
Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
— Jeremiah 5:15