Bible Verses About National Sins

I will go to the prominent men, and I will speak to them; for they know the way of ADONAI and the rulings of their God." But these had completely broken the yoke and torn the harness off.

Should I not punish for this?" asks ADONAI. "Should I not be avenged on a nation like this?"

"For from the least to the greatest of them, all are greedy for gains; prophets and cohanim alike, they all practice fraud

Hear, oh earth! I am going to bring disaster on this people; it is the consequence of their own way of thinking; for they pay no attention to my words; and as for my Torah, they reject it.

What do I care about incense from Sh'va or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are unacceptable, your sacrifices don't please me."

"I have made you a refiner and tester of my people, to know and test how they behave.

All of them are total rebels, spreading slanderous gossip; they are bronze and iron, [inferior metals,] all of them corrupt.

The bellows blast away; and though the lead is consumed by the fire, in vain has the smelter refined, for the wicked have not been separated.

They are called 'rejected silver,' because ADONAI has rejected them."

First you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer to Ba'al and go after other gods that you haven't known.

Then you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say, 'We are saved' - so that you can go on doing these abominations!

Do you regard this house, which bears my name, as a cave for bandits? I can see for myself what's going on," says ADONAI.

"Go to the place in Shiloh that used to be mine, that used to bear my name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Isra'el.

I spoke to you again and again, but you wouldn't listen. I called you, but you wouldn't answer. Now," says ADONAI, "because you have done all these things,

I will do to the house that bears my name, on which you rely, and to the place I gave you and your ancestors, what I did to Shiloh;

But if they refuse to listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it," says ADONAI.

But if you will not hear this warning, I will weep secretly because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, streaming with tears, because ADONAI's flock is carried away captive.

but if that nation turns from their evil, which prompted me to speak against it, then I relent concerning the disaster I had planned to inflict on it.

If they have been present at my council, they should let my people hear my words and turn them from their evil way and the evil of their actions.

But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Bavel and that nation for their sin,' says ADONAI, 'and I will turn the land of the Kasdim into everlasting ruins.

Mo'av has lived at ease from his youth; he is [wine] settled on its dregs, not decanted from jar to jar - he has not gone into exile. Therefore it retains its own [bad] taste, its aroma remains unchanged.

We have heard of the pride of Mo'av: so very proud he is! - presumptuous, proud, conceited; so haughty his heart!

"I know what meager ground he has for his arrogance," says ADONAI. "His boasting has nothing behind it, and it hasn't accomplished a thing."

Flee from Bavel, let each one save his life! Don't perish because of her guilt. For the time has come for the vengeance of ADONAI; he will repay her what she deserves.

You who live near plenty of water, so rich in treasure - your end has come, your time for being cut off!