Discovery Box| (0.09) | Jer 11:13 |
| This is in spite of the fact that 1 the people of Judah have as many gods as they have towns 2 and the citizens of Jerusalem have set up as many altars to sacrifice to that disgusting god, Baal, as they have streets in the city!’ 3 |
| (0.09) | Jer 11:15 |
| The Lord says to the people of Judah, 1 “What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? 2 Many of you have done wicked things. 3 Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings 4 that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them? 5 |
| (0.09) | Jer 11:16 |
| I, the Lord, once called 1 you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you 2 on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. 3 Then all your branches will be good for nothing. 4 |
| (0.09) | Jer 12:3 |
| But you, Lord, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. 1 Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed! 2 |
| (0.09) | Jer 12:9 |
| The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas. 1 But other birds of prey are all around them. 2 Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts. Let them come and destroy these people I call my own. 3 |
| (0.09) | Jer 14:8 |
| You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner 1 in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night? |
| (0.09) | Jer 14:9 |
| Why should you be like someone who is helpless, 1 like a champion 2 who cannot save anyone? You are indeed with us, 3 and we belong to you. 4 Do not abandon us!” |
| (0.09) | Jer 15:8 |
| Their widows will become in my sight more numerous 1 than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. 2 I will cause anguish 3 and terror to fall suddenly upon them. 4 |
| (0.09) | Jer 15:18 |
| Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?” 1 |
| (0.09) | Jer 16:19 |
| Then I said, 1 “Lord, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. 2 Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say, ‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods – worthless idols that could not help them at all. 3 |
| (0.09) | Jer 17:13 |
| You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. 1 All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you 2 will be consigned to the nether world. 3 For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life. 4 |
| (0.09) | Jer 20:7 |
| Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. 1 Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me. |
| (0.09) | Jer 20:12 |
| O Lord who rules over all, 1 you test and prove the righteous. You see into people’s hearts and minds. 2 Pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause. |
| (0.09) | Jer 22:6 |
| “‘For the Lord says concerning the palace of the king of Judah, “This place looks like a veritable forest of Gilead to me. It is like the wooded heights of Lebanon in my eyes. But I swear that I will make it like a wilderness whose towns have all been deserted. 1 |
| (0.09) | Jer 22:10 |
| “‘Do not weep for the king who was killed. Do not grieve for him. But weep mournfully for the king who has gone into exile. For he will never return to see his native land again. 1 |
| (0.09) | Jer 23:9 |
| Here is what the Lord says concerning the false prophets: 2 My heart and my mind are deeply disturbed. I tremble all over. 3 I am like a drunk person, like a person who has had too much wine, 4 because of the way the Lord and his holy word are being mistreated. 5 |
| (0.09) | Jer 23:17 |
| They continually say 1 to those who reject what the Lord has said, 2 ‘Things will go well for you!’ 3 They say to all those who follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you!’ |
| (0.09) | Jer 24:8 |
| “I, the Lord, also solemnly assert: ‘King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem 1 or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten. 2 |
| (0.09) | Jer 25:34 |
| Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! 1 The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery. 2 |
| (0.09) | Jer 26:9 |
| How dare you claim the Lord’s authority to prophesy such things! How dare you claim his authority to prophesy that this temple will become like Shiloh and that this city will become an uninhabited ruin!” 1 Then all the people crowded around Jeremiah. |
