Quotes about Submission
“Go and tell Hananiah that this is what the LORD says: ‘You have broken a yoke of wood, but in its place you have fashioned a yoke of iron.’
— Jeremiah 28:13
Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
— Jeremiah 35:7
“Here he is,” replied King Zedekiah. “He is in your hands, since the king can do nothing to stop you.”
— Jeremiah 38:5
“They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
— Jeremiah 38:20
Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us, for we will obey the voice of the LORD our God!”
— Jeremiah 42:6
For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’
— Jeremiah 42:20
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
— Jeremiah 51:40
Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
— Lamentations 3:30
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
— Lamentations 5:6
Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.
— Ezekiel 7:17
“Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.
— Ezekiel 8:8
Then the man clothed in linen with the writing kit at his side reported back, “I have done as You commanded.”
— Ezekiel 9:11