Quotes about Work
For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
— Isaiah 28:21
Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
— Isaiah 28:24
For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
— Isaiah 29:23
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
— Isaiah 30:24
Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “How dare you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?
— Isaiah 45:11
Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
— Isaiah 60:21
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
— Isaiah 64:8
If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,
— Jeremiah 17:24
So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.
— Jeremiah 18:3
For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
— Jeremiah 25:14
Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.
— Jeremiah 48:10
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
— Lamentations 4:2