Quotes about Author
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
— Jeremiah 2:7
The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
— Jeremiah 2:15
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
— Jeremiah 3:3
For a voice resounds from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.
— Jeremiah 4:15
Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
— Jeremiah 5:4
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
The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”
— Jeremiah 5:13
Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.
— Jeremiah 5:16
Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
— Jeremiah 5:25
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
— Jeremiah 5:26
Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
— Jeremiah 5:27
Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
— Jeremiah 5:29