Quotes about Responsibility
“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 23:32
“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
— Jeremiah 23:33
As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.
— Jeremiah 23:34
But if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,
— Jeremiah 23:38
And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.
— Jeremiah 25:4
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
— Jeremiah 25:8
If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it!
— Jeremiah 25:28
Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people,
— Jeremiah 26:17
‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
— Jeremiah 29:26
“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
— Jeremiah 31:29
Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
— Jeremiah 31:30
Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
— Jeremiah 32:6