Quotes About Guidance

This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ëWhere is the good way?í Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ëWe will not walk in it!í

I appointed watchmen over you and said, ëListen for the sound of the ramís horn.í But they answered, ëWe will not listen!í

“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.

Therefore you must say to them, ëThis is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.

Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.

This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.

For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

I know, O LORD, that a manís way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ëObey My voice.í

And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.

Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:

Then the word of the LORD came to me:

These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.

Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?