“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, w
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteou
Now there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused
Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflict
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the ri
Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would n
But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.
“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant,
I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may retu
In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness.
But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD aga
But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant,
The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purge
Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did
Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others
And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues. Yet
Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish ou
But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LOR
At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.