Bible Verses About Judgments

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of the LORD.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel,” says the LORD. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know, neither understand what they say.

Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

They shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees. They shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust, with the sword.

“But even in those days,” says the LORD, “I will not make a full end with you.

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: the LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.

Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against the LORD.

So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.

But they didn’t listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured out, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.

I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.

My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

He has walled me about, that I can’t go out; he has made my chain heavy.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.