Discovery Box| (0.48) | Jer 7:16 |
| Then the Lord said, 1 “As for you, Jeremiah, 2 do not pray for these people! Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf! Do not plead with me to save them, 3 because I will not listen to you. |
| (0.48) | Jer 7:22 |
| Consider this: 1 When I spoke to your ancestors after I brought them out of Egypt, I did not merely give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
| (0.48) | Jer 7:29 |
| So, mourn, 1 you people of this nation. 2 Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the hilltops. For the Lord has decided to reject 3 and forsake this generation that has provoked his wrath!’” 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 7:30 |
| The Lord says, “I have rejected them because 1 the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. 2 They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple 3 which I have claimed for my own 4 and have defiled it. |
| (0.48) | Jer 7:34 |
| I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, or the glad celebration of brides and grooms throughout the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For the whole land will become a desolate wasteland.” |
| (0.48) | Jer 8:17 |
| The Lord says, 1 “Yes indeed, 2 I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. 3 And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.” 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 8:22 |
| There is still medicinal ointment 1 available in Gilead! There is still a physician there! 2 Why then have my dear people 3 not been restored to health? 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 9:2 |
| (9:1) I wish I had a lodging place in the desert where I could spend some time like a weary traveler. 1 Then I would desert my people and walk away from them because they are all unfaithful to God, a congregation 2 of people that has been disloyal to him. 3 |
| (0.48) | Jer 9:4 |
| Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. 1 For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. 2 And all of his friends will tell lies about him. |
| (0.48) | Jer 9:7 |
| Therefore the Lord who rules over all says, 1 “I will now purify them in the fires of affliction 2 and test them. The wickedness of my dear people 3 has left me no choice. What else can I do? 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 9:20 |
| I said, 1 “So now, 2 you wailing women, hear what the Lord says. 3 Open your ears to the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters this mournful song, and each of you teach your neighbor 4 this lament. |
| (0.48) | Jer 10:2 |
| The Lord says, “Do not start following pagan religious practices. 1 Do not be in awe of signs that occur 2 in the sky even though the nations hold them in awe. |
| (0.48) | Jer 10:14 |
| All these idolaters 1 will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. 2 There is no breath in any of those idols. 3 |
| (0.48) | Jer 10:16 |
| The Lord, who is the inheritance 1 of Jacob’s descendants, 2 is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. 3 He is known as the Lord who rules over all.” 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 10:18 |
| For the Lord says, “I will now throw out those who live in this land. I will bring so much trouble on them that they will actually feel it.” 1 |
| (0.48) | Jer 10:21 |
| For our leaders 1 are stupid. They have not sought the Lord’s advice. 2 So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for 3 have all been scattered. |
| (0.48) | Jer 11:7 |
| For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. 1 I warned them again and again, 2 ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day. |
| (0.48) | 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 |
| (0.48) | 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 |
| (0.48) | Jer 11:20 |
| So I said to the Lord, 1 “O Lord who rules over all, 2 you are a just judge! You examine people’s hearts and minds. 3 I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.” 4 |
