Quotes about Jeremiah

At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.

But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,

I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,

When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.