Quotes about Jeremiah
Their children will be as in days of old, and their congregation will be established before Me; and I will punish all their oppressors.
— Jeremiah 30:20
This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
— Jeremiah 31:2
How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”
— Jeremiah 31:22
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.
— Jeremiah 31:26
Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 31:28
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 31:32
The measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.
— Jeremiah 31:39
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
— Jeremiah 32:1
At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
— Jeremiah 32:2
For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
— Jeremiah 32:3
He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”
— Jeremiah 32:5
I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
— Jeremiah 32:10