Quotes about Power
With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.
— Jeremiah 51:23
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
— Jeremiah 51:25
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
— Jeremiah 51:34
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
— Jeremiah 51:36
They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
— Jeremiah 51:38
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
— Jeremiah 51:40
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
— Jeremiah 51:42
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
— Jeremiah 51:44
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
— Jeremiah 51:57
In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
— Lamentations 2:3
He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
— Lamentations 3:10
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
— Lamentations 5:6