Quotes about Trust
Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”
— Jeremiah 2:37
Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
— Jeremiah 3:4
But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 3:20
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”
— Jeremiah 4:10
They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
— Jeremiah 5:12
They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”
— Jeremiah 5:17
Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
— Jeremiah 5:22
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
— Jeremiah 5:31
This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
— Jeremiah 6:16
Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
— Jeremiah 7:4
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
— Jeremiah 7:8
therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
— Jeremiah 7:14