Quotes about Jeremiah
and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
— Jeremiah 7:10
But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
— Jeremiah 7:12
As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
— Jeremiah 7:16
For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
— Jeremiah 7:22
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
— Jeremiah 7:24
From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
— Jeremiah 7:25
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
— Jeremiah 7:29
And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
— Jeremiah 8:3
Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
— Jeremiah 8:12
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
— Jeremiah 8:14
“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 8:17
My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
— Jeremiah 8:18