Quotes about Judah
Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.
— Jeremiah 11:6
And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 11:9
They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
— Jeremiah 11:10
Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
— Jeremiah 11:12
Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
— Jeremiah 11:13
The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
— Jeremiah 11:17
This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
— Jeremiah 12:14
“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 13:9
For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
— Jeremiah 13:11
The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.
— Jeremiah 13:19
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 14:2
“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
— Jeremiah 17:1