1 Kings 19:10-14
19:10 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal
to the
Lord, the sovereign God,
even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you,
torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.”
19:11 The
Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the
Lord. Look, the
Lord is ready to pass by.”
A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
19:12 After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper.
19:13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden a voice asked him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”
19:14 He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal to the Lord, the sovereign God, even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.”
Isaiah 24:1-6
The Lord Will Judge the Earth
24:1 Look, the Lord is ready to devastate the earth
and leave it in ruins;
he will mar its surface
and scatter its inhabitants.
24:2 Everyone will suffer – the priest as well as the people,
the master as well as the servant,
the elegant lady as well as the female attendant,
the seller as well as the buyer,
the borrower as well as the lender,
the creditor as well as the debtor.
24:3 The earth will be completely devastated
and thoroughly ransacked.
For the Lord has decreed this judgment.
24:4 The earth dries up and withers,
the world shrivels up and withers;
the prominent people of the earth fade away.
24:5 The earth is defiled by its inhabitants,
for they have violated laws,
disregarded the regulation,
and broken the permanent treaty.
24:6 So a treaty curse devours the earth;
its inhabitants pay for their guilt.
This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear,
and are reduced to just a handful of people.
Jeremiah 22:9
22:9 The answer will come back, “It is because they broke their covenant with the
Lord their God and worshiped and served other gods.”
Jeremiah 31:32
31:32 It will not be like the old
covenant that I made with their ancestors
when I delivered them
from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,”
says the
Lord.
Hebrews 8:9
8:9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.