Quotes about Captivity

Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon, where he kept him in custody until his dying day.

These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;

Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.

He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes, and you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people.

Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.