Quotes about Responsibility
I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
— Jeremiah 8:6
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
— Jeremiah 8:7
Then the word of the LORD came to me:
— Jeremiah 13:8
What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?
— Jeremiah 13:21
Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
— Jeremiah 14:11
When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
— Jeremiah 16:10
and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
— Jeremiah 18:10
Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
— Jeremiah 19:10
But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
— Jeremiah 22:5
Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
— Jeremiah 22:15
I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
— Jeremiah 22:21
“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 23:1