Quotes about Authority
I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
— Jeremiah 5:5
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
Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
— Jeremiah 13:18
“Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.
— Jeremiah 16:21
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 17:19
Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
— Jeremiah 19:10
The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
— Jeremiah 20:3
Moreover, tell the house of the king of Judah to hear the word of the LORD.
— Jeremiah 21:11
This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,
— Jeremiah 22:1
He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
— Jeremiah 22:19
In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.
— Jeremiah 22:25