Quotes about Israel
How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
— Hosea 11:8
Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
— Hosea 11:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
— Hosea 12:12
But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
— Hosea 12:13
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died.
— Hosea 13:1
You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.
— Hosea 13:9
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
— Hosea 14:1
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
— Hosea 14:5
Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.
— Joel 2:27
I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.
— Joel 3:2
The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
— Joel 3:16
These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
— Amos 1:1