Quotes about Judgment
But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.
— Nahum 1:8
This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.
— Nahum 1:12
The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
— Nahum 1:14
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
— Nahum 2:7
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
— Nahum 2:13
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
— Nahum 3:1
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
— Nahum 3:5
I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
— Nahum 3:6
There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!
— Nahum 3:15
For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
— Habakkuk 1:6
They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty.
— Habakkuk 1:7
Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
— Habakkuk 1:12