Quotes About Guidance

But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”

“Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and proclaim, ëThe LORD declares it.í”

“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.

This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother: ëWhat has the LORD answered?í or ëWhat has the LORD spoken?í

Thus you are to say to the prophet: ëWhat has the LORD answered you?í and ëWhat has the LORD spoken?í

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.

Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.í

Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.

And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ëIf you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,

This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.

For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”

So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that

(Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

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

Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.

“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israelís Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”