Jeremiah Quotes

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.'

If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.

I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds of the air have fled and the animals are gone.

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good which I had intended to do to it.

Do not say, 'I am only a boy'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!

New Living Translation And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.

The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you.

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness.