Quotes about Proclamation
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
— Amos 5:1
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
— Amos 5:16
For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
— Amos 6:14
And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
— Jonah 3:5
Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.
— Jonah 3:7
Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
— Micah 1:2
Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
— Micah 6:1
Look to the mountains—the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.
— Nahum 1:15
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
— Nahum 2:7
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
— Nahum 2:13
“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.
— Zephaniah 1:3
On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.
— Zephaniah 1:10