Quotes about Jeremiah
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
— Jeremiah 51:43
“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
— Jeremiah 51:51
Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 51:53
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
— Jeremiah 51:58
This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
— Jeremiah 51:59
Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
— Jeremiah 51:60
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,
— Jeremiah 51:61
When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
— Jeremiah 51:63
Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
— Jeremiah 51:64
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
— Jeremiah 52:1
And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
— Jeremiah 52:2
And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.
— Jeremiah 52:5