Quotes about Submission
Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
— Isaiah 58:5
For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.
— Isaiah 60:12
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
— Isaiah 64:8
I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.
— Jeremiah 10:23
Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
— Jeremiah 10:24
So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist.
— Jeremiah 13:2
So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.
— Jeremiah 13:5
If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it!
— Jeremiah 25:28
As for me, here I am in your hands; do to me what you think is good and right.
— Jeremiah 26:14
This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.
— Jeremiah 27:2
But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”
— Jeremiah 27:11
And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!
— Jeremiah 27:12