Discovery Box| (0.15) | Isa 42:24 |
| Who handed Jacob over to the robber? Who handed Israel over to the looters? 1 Was it not the Lord, against whom we sinned? They refused to follow his commands; they disobeyed his law. 2 |
| (0.15) | Isa 43:14 |
| This is what the Lord says, your protector, 1 the Holy One of Israel: 2 “For your sake I send to Babylon and make them all fugitives, 3 turning the Babylonians’ joyful shouts into mourning songs. 4 |
| (0.15) | Isa 44:14 |
| He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress 1 or an oak. He gets 2 trees from the forest; he plants a cedar 3 and the rain makes it grow. |
| (0.15) | Isa 45:1 |
| This is what the Lord says to his chosen 1 one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold 2 in order to subdue nations before him, and disarm kings, 3 to open doors before him, so gates remain unclosed: |
| (0.15) | Isa 48:5 |
| I announced them to you beforehand; before they happened, I predicted them for you, so you could never say, ‘My image did these things, my idol, my cast image, decreed them.’ |
| (0.15) | Isa 48:16 |
| Approach me! Listen to this! From the very first I have not spoken in secret; when it happens, 1 I am there.” So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit. 2 |
| (0.15) | Isa 50:6 |
| I offered my back to those who attacked, 1 my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting. |
| (0.15) | Isa 53:7 |
| He was treated harshly and afflicted, 1 but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth. 2 |
| (0.15) | Isa 53:8 |
| He was led away after an unjust trial 1 – but who even cared? 2 Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; 3 because of the rebellion of his own 4 people he was wounded. |
| (0.15) | Isa 54:9 |
| “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, 1 when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood 2 would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you. |
| (0.15) | Isa 59:16 |
| He sees there is no advocate; 1 he is shocked 2 that no one intervenes. So he takes matters into his own hands; 3 his desire for justice drives him on. 4 |
| (0.15) | Jer 2:5 |
| This is what the Lord says: “What fault could your ancestors 1 have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? 2 They paid allegiance to 3 worthless idols, and so became worthless to me. 4 |
| (0.15) | Jer 2:7 |
| I brought you 1 into a fertile land so you could enjoy 2 its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; 3 you made the land I call my own 4 loathsome to me. |
| (0.15) | Jer 7:13 |
| You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. 1 But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent! 2 |
| (0.15) | Jer 7:24 |
| But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better. 1 |
| (0.15) | Jer 8:6 |
| I have listened to them very carefully, 1 but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, “I have done wrong!” 2 All of them persist in their own wayward course 3 like a horse charging recklessly into battle. |
| (0.15) | Jer 15:16 |
| As your words came to me I drank them in, 1 and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you. 2 |
| (0.15) | Jer 16:11 |
| Then tell them that the Lord says, 1 ‘It is because your ancestors 2 rejected me and paid allegiance to 3 other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law. 4 |
| (0.15) | Jer 16:14 |
| Yet 1 I, the Lord, say: 2 “A new time will certainly come. 3 People now affirm their oaths with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.’ |
| (0.15) | Jer 18:20 |
| Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. 1 Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf 2 to keep you from venting your anger on them. 3 |
