Discovery Box| (0.35) | Isa 57:6 |
| Among the smooth stones of the stream are the idols you love; they, they are the object of your devotion. 1 You pour out liquid offerings to them, you make an offering. Because of these things I will seek vengeance. 2 |
| (0.35) | Isa 60:21 |
| All of your people will be godly; 1 they will possess the land permanently. I will plant them like a shoot; they will be the product of my labor, through whom I reveal my splendor. 2 |
| (0.35) | Isa 61:6 |
| You will be called, ‘the Lord’s priests, servants of our God.’ 1 You will enjoy 2 the wealth of nations and boast about 3 the riches you receive from them. 4 |
| (0.35) | Isa 63:14 |
| Like an animal that goes down into a valley to graze, 1 so the Spirit of the Lord granted them rest. In this way 2 you guided your people, gaining for yourself an honored reputation. 3 |
| (0.35) | Isa 64:5 |
| You assist 1 those who delight in doing what is right, 2 who observe your commandments. 3 Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved? 4 |
| (0.35) | Isa 65:7 |
| for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” 1 says the Lord. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and offended 2 me on the hills, I will punish them in full measure.” 3 |
| (0.35) | Isa 66:2 |
| My hand made them; 1 that is how they came to be,” 2 says the Lord. I show special favor 3 to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say. 4 |
| (0.35) | Jer 2:10 |
| Go west 1 across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus 2 and see. Send someone east to Kedar 3 and have them look carefully. See if such a thing as this has ever happened: |
| (0.35) | Jer 2:11 |
| Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, 1 for a god that cannot help them at all! 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 2:25 |
| Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. 1 But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods 2 and want to pursue them!’ |
| (0.35) | Jer 2:28 |
| But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them save you when you are in trouble. The sad fact is that 1 you have as many gods as you have towns, Judah. |
| (0.35) | Jer 2:34 |
| Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. 1 Yet, in spite of all these things you have done, 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 5:4 |
| I thought, “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. 1 They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. 2 They do not know what their God requires of them. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 6:24 |
| The people cry out, 1 “We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! 2 Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby! |
| (0.35) | Jer 6:27 |
| The Lord said to me, 1 “I have made you like a metal assayer to test my people like ore. 2 You are to observe them and evaluate how they behave.” 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 6:29 |
| The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. 1 The process of refining them has proved useless. 2 The wicked have not been purged. |
| (0.35) | Jer 7:23 |
| I also explicitly commanded them: 1 “Obey me. If you do, I 2 will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you 3 and things will go well with you.” |
| (0.35) | Jer 7:28 |
| So tell them: ‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the Lord their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore. 1 |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | Jer 7:33 |
| Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. 1 There will not be any survivors to scare them away. |
