Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolishe
When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understa
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because the
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to
The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives t
If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both
But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of
But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fiel
The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are
Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold o
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migr
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he s
So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascu
They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, beca