Quotes about Authority
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
- Jeremiah 51:40
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
- Jeremiah 51:57
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
- Lamentations 3:34
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
- Lamentations 5:8
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
- Lamentations 5:12
“Son of man,” He said to me, “stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.”
- Ezekiel 2:1
And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
- Ezekiel 9:5
Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me.
- Ezekiel 14:1
He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
- Ezekiel 17:13
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.
- Ezekiel 23:46
So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.’
- Ezekiel 25:11
Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 29:6