Quotes about Punishment

So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.

“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.

“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”

Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a planting area for a vineyard. I will pour her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.

Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.

I will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me.”

Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.