Quotes about Authority
But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?
— Jeremiah 23:18
I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.
— Jeremiah 23:21
“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”
— Jeremiah 23:29
“Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and proclaim, ‘The LORD declares it.’”
— Jeremiah 23:31
and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
— Jeremiah 26:8
When the officials of Judah heard these things, they went up from the king’s palace to the house of the LORD and sat there at the entrance of the New Gate.
— Jeremiah 26:10
Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people,
— Jeremiah 26:17
Give them a message from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to relay to their masters:
— Jeremiah 27:4
By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
— Jeremiah 27:5
So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.
— Jeremiah 27:6
But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
— Jeremiah 27:9
And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!
— Jeremiah 27:12