Quotes about Detestable
Wicked behavior is detestable to kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.
- Proverbs 16:12
Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.
- Proverbs 17:15
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!
- Proverbs 21:27
A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.
- Proverbs 24:9
Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
- Proverbs 28:9
Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me—your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.
- Isaiah 1:13
Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
- Isaiah 41:24
And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
- Isaiah 44:19
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
- Jeremiah 2:7
“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
- Jeremiah 4:1
Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
- Jeremiah 13:27
Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
- Jeremiah 44:4