Quotes about Betrayal
But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.
— Isaiah 30:3
Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.
— Isaiah 33:1
They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
— Isaiah 59:5
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
— Jeremiah 2:20
I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
— Jeremiah 2:21
Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
— Jeremiah 2:32
How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
— Jeremiah 2:36
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
“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 3:1
I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
— Jeremiah 3:7
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
— Jeremiah 3:9
But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 3:20