Discovery Box| (0.15) | Isa 33:20 |
| Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals! You 1 will see Jerusalem, 2 a peaceful settlement, a tent that stays put; 3 its stakes will never be pulled up; none of its ropes will snap in two. |
| (0.15) | Isa 36:7 |
| Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar.’ |
| (0.15) | Isa 37:38 |
| One day, 1 as he was worshiping 2 in the temple of his god Nisroch, 3 his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 4 They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king. |
| (0.15) | Isa 40:22 |
| He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; 1 its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. 2 He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, 3 and spreads it out 4 like a pitched tent. 5 |
| (0.15) | Isa 42:5 |
| This is what the true God, 1 the Lord, says – the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, 2 the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it: 3 |
| (0.15) | Isa 49:13 |
| Shout for joy, O sky! 1 Rejoice, O earth! Let the mountains give a joyful shout! For the Lord consoles his people and shows compassion to the 2 oppressed. |
| (0.15) | Jer 5:5 |
| I will go to the leaders 1 and speak with them. Surely they know what the Lord demands. 2 Surely they know what their God requires of them.” 3 Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him. 4 |
| (0.15) | Jer 6:9 |
| This is what the Lord who rules over all 1 said to me: 2 “Those who remain in Israel will be like the grapes thoroughly gleaned 3 from a vine. So go over them again, as though you were a grape harvester passing your hand over the branches one last time.” 4 |
| (0.15) | Jer 9:3 |
| The Lord says, 1 “These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. 2 They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. 3 Indeed, they do one evil thing after another 4 and do not pay attention to me. 5 |
| (0.15) | Jer 11:8 |
| But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.’” 1 |
| (0.15) | Jer 15:10 |
| I said, 1 “Oh, mother, how I regret 2 that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. 3 I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.” 4 |
| (0.15) | Jer 21:13 |
| Listen, you 1 who sit enthroned above the valley on a rocky plateau. I am opposed to you,’ 2 says the Lord. 3 ‘You boast, “No one can swoop down on us. No one can penetrate into our places of refuge.” 4 |
| (0.15) | Jer 22:3 |
| The Lord says, “Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those 1 who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. 2 Do not kill innocent people 3 in this land. |
| (0.15) | Jer 30:14 |
| All your allies have abandoned you. 1 They no longer have any concern for you. For I have attacked you like an enemy would. I have chastened you cruelly. For your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much. 2 |
| (0.15) | Jer 31:35 |
| The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all. 1 |
| (0.15) | Jer 35:4 |
| I took them to the Lord’s temple. I took them into the room where the disciples of the prophet Hanan son of Igdaliah stayed. 1 That room was next to the one where the temple officers stayed and above the room where Maaseiah son of Shallum, one of the doorkeepers 2 of the temple, stayed. |
| (0.15) | Jer 35:7 |
| Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. 1 Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will 2 live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’ 3 |
| (0.15) | Jer 36:7 |
| Perhaps then they will ask the Lord for mercy and will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing. 1 For the Lord has threatened to bring great anger and wrath against these people.” 2 |
| (0.15) | Jer 41:2 |
| Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him stood up, pulled out their swords, and killed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan. Thus Ishmael killed the man that the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the country. |
| (0.15) | Jer 48:45 |
| In the shadows of the walls of Heshbon those trying to escape will stand helpless. For a fire will burst forth from Heshbon. Flames will shoot out from the former territory of Sihon. They will burn the foreheads of the people of Moab, the skulls of those war-loving people. 1 |
