Bible Verses About Judgments

Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.

Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.

Loe, I will bring a nation vpon you from farre, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, which is a mightie nation, and an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither vnderstandest what they say.

Whose quiuer is as an open sepulchre: they are all very strong.

And they shall eate thine haruest and thy bread: they shall deuoure thy sonnes and thy daughters: they shall eate vp thy sheepe and thy bullocks: they shall eate thy vines and thy figge trees: they shall destroy with the sworde thy fenced cities, wherein thou didest trust.

Neuerthelesse at those dayes, sayth the Lord, I will not make a full ende of you.

Then sayd the Prophet Ieremiah vnto the Prophet Hananiah, Heare nowe Hananiah, the Lord hath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lye.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I will cast thee from of the earth: this yeere thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken rebelliously against the Lord.

So Hananiah the Prophet died the same yeere in the seuenth moneth.

Howbeit I sent vnto you all my seruats the Prophets rising earely, and sending them, saying, Oh doe not this abominable thing that I hate.

But they would not heare nor incline their eare to turne from their wickednes, and to burne no more incense vnto other gods.

Wherefore my wrath, and mine anger was powred foorth and was kindled in the cities of Iudah, and in the streetes of Ierusalem, and they are desolate, and wasted, as appeareth this day.

I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.

Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.

My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.

He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.

He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.

Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.

He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.

He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.

He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

He hath bent his bow and made me a marke for the arrow.