Discovery Box| (0.48) | Jer 50:14 |
| “Take up your battle positions all around Babylon, all you soldiers who are armed with bows. 1 Shoot 2 all your arrows at her! Do not hold any back! 3 For she has sinned against the Lord. |
| (0.48) | Jer 50:24 |
| I set a trap for you, Babylon; you were caught before you knew it. You fought against me. So you were found and captured. 1 |
| (0.48) | Jer 50:25 |
| I have opened up the place where my weapons are stored. 1 I have brought out the weapons for carrying out my wrath. 2 For I, the Lord God who rules over all, 3 have work to carry out in the land of Babylonia. 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:2 |
| I will send people to winnow Babylonia like a wind blowing away chaff. 1 They will winnow her and strip her land bare. 2 This will happen when 3 they come against her from every direction, when it is time to destroy her. 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:6 |
| Get out of Babylonia quickly, you foreign people. 1 Flee to save your lives. Do not let yourselves be killed because of her sins. For it is time for the Lord to wreak his revenge. He will pay Babylonia 2 back for what she has done. 3 |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:9 |
| Foreigners living there will say, 1 ‘We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed. Let’s leave Babylonia 2 and each go back to his own country. For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions. It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.’ 3 |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:17 |
| All idolaters 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. There is no breath in any of those idols. |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:19 |
| The Lord, who is the portion of the descendants of Jacob, is not like them. For he is the one who created everything, including the people of Israel whom he claims as his own. 1 He is known as the Lord who rules over all. 2 |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:26 |
| No one will use any of your stones as a cornerstone. No one will use any of them in the foundation of his house. For you will lie desolate forever,” 1 says the Lord. 2 |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:29 |
| The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. 1 For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia 2 a wasteland where no one lives. 3 |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:31 |
| One runner after another will come to the king of Babylon. One messenger after another will come bringing news. 1 They will bring news to the king of Babylon that his whole city has been captured. 2 |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:33 |
| For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘Fair Babylon 1 will be like a threshing floor which has been trampled flat for harvest. The time for her to be cut down and harvested will come very soon.’ 2 |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:48 |
| Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will sing for joy over Babylon. For destroyers from the north will attack it,” says the Lord. 1 |
| (0.48) | Jer 51:55 |
| For the Lord is ready to destroy Babylon, and put an end to her loud noise. Their waves 1 will roar like turbulent 2 waters. They will make a deafening noise. 3 |
| (0.48) | Jer 52:3 |
| What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger when he drove them out of his sight. 1 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. |
| (0.48) | Lam 1:5 |
| ה (He) Her foes subjugated her; 1 her enemies are at ease. 2 For the Lord afflicted her because of her many acts of rebellion. 3 Her children went away captive 4 before the enemy. |
| (0.48) | Lam 1:8 |
| ח (Khet) Jerusalem committed terrible sin; 1 therefore she became an object of scorn. 2 All who admired 3 her have despised her 4 because they have seen her nakedness. 5 She groans aloud 6 and turns away in shame. 7 |
| (0.48) | Lam 1:9 |
| ט (Tet) Her menstrual flow 1 has soiled 2 her clothing; 3 she did not consider 4 the consequences of her sin. 5 Her demise 6 was astonishing, 7 and there was no one to comfort her. She cried, “Look, 8 O Lord, on my 9 affliction because my |
| (0.48) | Lam 1:10 |
| י (Yod) An enemy grabbed 1 all her valuables. 2 Indeed she watched in horror 3 as Gentiles 4 invaded her holy temple 5 – those whom you 6 had commanded: “They must not enter 7 your assembly place.” 8 |
| (0.48) | Lam 1:11 |
| כ (Kaf) All her people groaned as they searched for a morsel of bread. 1 They exchanged 2 their valuables 3 for 4 just enough food to stay alive. 5 “Look, O Lord! Consider 6 that I have become worthless!” |
