Quotes about Jeremiah
As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
— Jeremiah 11:14
And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.
— Jeremiah 11:18
There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”
— Jeremiah 11:23
But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
— Jeremiah 12:3
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
— Jeremiah 12:4
My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
— Jeremiah 12:8
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
— Jeremiah 12:9
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
— Jeremiah 12:10
But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”
— Jeremiah 12:17
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
— Jeremiah 13:1
So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist.
— Jeremiah 13:2
“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”
— Jeremiah 13:4