Quotes about Sacrifice
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
— Lamentations 5:4
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
— Lamentations 5:13
Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.
— Ezekiel 4:4
When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.
— Ezekiel 4:6
But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.
— Ezekiel 4:9
“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
— Ezekiel 5:1
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
— Ezekiel 5:10
So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my bags for exile by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall by hand. I took my belongings out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder as they watched.
— Ezekiel 12:7
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.
— Ezekiel 15:6
You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
— Ezekiel 16:20
You slaughtered My children and delivered them up through the fire to idols.
— Ezekiel 16:21
This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,
— Ezekiel 16:36