Quotes about People
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
— Jeremiah 5:31
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”
— Jeremiah 6:21
“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
— Jeremiah 7:2
but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
— Jeremiah 7:23
Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
— Jeremiah 8:5
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
— Jeremiah 8:21
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
— Jeremiah 8:22
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
— Jeremiah 9:2
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
— Jeremiah 9:7
which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
— Jeremiah 11:4
There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”
— Jeremiah 11:23
And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.
— Jeremiah 12:16