Quotes about Reflection
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
— Jeremiah 12:11
And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
— Jeremiah 13:22
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
— Jeremiah 15:16
I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
— Jeremiah 15:17
You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.
— Jeremiah 17:22
“Set up the roadmarks, establish the signposts. Keep the highway in mind, the road you have traveled. Return, O Virgin Israel, return to these cities of yours.
— Jeremiah 31:21
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
— Lamentations 1:12
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
— Lamentations 2:10
My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
— Lamentations 3:17
Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
— Lamentations 3:20
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
— Lamentations 3:21
Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.
— Lamentations 3:28