Quotes about Jeremiah
As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
— Jeremiah 6:7
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”
— Jeremiah 6:9
To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
— Jeremiah 6:10
But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.
— Jeremiah 6:11
I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’ But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’
— Jeremiah 6:17
This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.
— Jeremiah 6:22
We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.
— Jeremiah 6:24
Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
— Jeremiah 6:25
All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
— Jeremiah 6:28
They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
— Jeremiah 6:30
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
— Jeremiah 7:1
“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
— Jeremiah 7:2