Quotes about Captivity

“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.

Though they are driven by their enemies into captivity, there I will command the sword to slay them. I will fix My eyes upon them for harm and not for good.”

I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

Oppression and opposition to Jews is nothing new in world history. The descendants of Abraham were enslaved in Egypt for 400 years, then the ten northern tribes were captured by the Assyrians in 722 BC and the two southern tribes by the Babylonians in 586 BC. (Granted, these captivities were due to the Jews' sins.)