Quotes about Responsibility
A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”
— Isaiah 3:6
On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”
— Isaiah 3:7
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
— Isaiah 3:14
Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
— Isaiah 3:15
In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
— Isaiah 4:1
“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.
— Isaiah 5:3
What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
— Isaiah 5:4
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
— Isaiah 10:15
This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:
— Isaiah 22:15
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
— Isaiah 24:2
These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
— Isaiah 30:9
Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”
— Isaiah 45:10