Discovery Box| (0.48) | Jer 12:1 |
| Lord, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. 1 However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. 2 Why are wicked people successful? 3 Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives? |
| (0.48) | Jer 12:5 |
| The Lord answered, 1 “If you have raced on foot against men and they have worn you out, how will you be able to compete with horses? And if you feel secure only 2 in safe and open country, 3 how will you manage in the thick undergrowth along the Jordan River? 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 12:11 |
| They will lay it waste. It will lie parched 1 and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed. 2 |
| (0.48) | Jer 13:17 |
| But if you will not pay attention to this warning, 1 I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride. I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears 2 because you, the Lord’s flock, 3 will be carried 4 into exile.” |
| (0.48) | Jer 13:21 |
| What will you say 1 when the Lord 2 appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? 3 Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby. 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 14:7 |
| Then I said, 1 “O Lord, intervene for the honor of your name 2 even though our sins speak out against us. 3 Indeed, 4 we have turned away from you many times. We have sinned against you. |
| (0.48) | Jer 15:5 |
| The Lord cried out, 1 “Who in the world 2 will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will grieve over you? Who will stop long enough 3 to inquire about how you are doing? 4 |
| (0.48) | 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 |
| (0.48) | 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 |
| (0.48) | Jer 15:20 |
| I will make you as strong as a wall to these people, a fortified wall of bronze. They will attack you, but they will not be able to overcome you. For I will be with you to rescue you and deliver you,” 1 says the Lord. |
| (0.48) | Jer 16:17 |
| For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it. 1 |
| (0.48) | Jer 16:21 |
| The Lord said, 1 “So I will now let this wicked people know – I will let them know my mighty power in judgment. Then they will know that my name is the Lord.” 2 |
| (0.48) | Jer 17:6 |
| They will be like a shrub 1 in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live. |
| (0.48) | 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 |
| (0.48) | Jer 18:15 |
| Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. 1 They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level. 2 |
| (0.48) | 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 |
| (0.48) | 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. |
| (0.48) | Jer 21:10 |
| For I, the Lord, say that 1 I am determined not to deliver this city but to bring disaster on it. 2 It will be handed over to the king of Babylon and he will destroy it with fire.’” 3 |
| (0.48) | Jer 22:5 |
| But, if you do not obey these commands, I solemnly swear 1 that this palace will become a pile of rubble. I, the Lord, affirm it!” 2 |
| (0.48) | 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 |
