Quotes about Priests
I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 31:14
because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 32:32
nor will the priests who are Levites ever fail to have a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to present sacrifices.”
— Jeremiah 33:18
then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.
— Jeremiah 33:21
The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,
— Jeremiah 34:19
Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.
— Jeremiah 48:7
Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
— Jeremiah 49:3
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
— Lamentations 1:4
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
— Lamentations 4:13
The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.
— Lamentations 4:16
Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
— Ezekiel 7:26
Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
— Ezekiel 22:26