Quotes about Judgment
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”
— Jeremiah 4:10
a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”
— Jeremiah 4:12
They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 4:17
I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
— Jeremiah 4:26
For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
— Jeremiah 4:27
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
— Jeremiah 5:3
Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.
— Jeremiah 5:6
“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
— Jeremiah 5:7
Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
— Jeremiah 5:9
Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
— Jeremiah 5:10
They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
— Jeremiah 5:12
Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
— Jeremiah 5:14