Discovery Box| (0.25) | Job 1:17 |
| While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, “The Chaldeans 1 formed three bands and made a raid 2 on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! 3 And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!” |
| (0.25) | Psa 52:1 |
| For the music director; a well-written song 2 by David. It was written when Doeg the Edomite went and informed Saul: “David has arrived at the home of Ahimelech.” 3 Why do you boast about your evil plans, 4 O powerful man? God’s loyal love protects me all day long! 5 |
| (0.25) | Psa 54:1 |
| For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a well-written song 2 by David. It was written when the Ziphites came and informed Saul: “David is hiding with us.” 3 O God, deliver me by your name! 4 Vindicate me 5 by your power! |
| (0.25) | Psa 63:1 |
| A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. 2 O God, you are my God! I long for you! 3 My soul thirsts 4 for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched 5 land where there is no water. |
| (0.25) | Ecc 2:3 |
| I thought deeply 1 about the effects of 2 indulging 3 myself 4 with wine (all the while 5 my mind was guiding me 6 with wisdom) 7 and the effects of 8 behaving foolishly, 9 so that |
| (0.25) | Sos 8:5 |
| The Maidens about His Beloved: Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? The Beloved to Her Lover: Under the apple tree I aroused you; 1 there your mother conceived you, there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth. 2 |
| (0.25) | Isa 38:1 |
| In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. 1 The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’” |
| (0.25) | Isa 45:21 |
| Tell me! Present the evidence! 1 Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the Lord? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; 2 there is none but me. |
| (0.25) | Isa 52:15 |
| his form was so marred he no longer looked human 1 – so now 2 he will startle 3 many nations. Kings will be shocked by his exaltation, 4 for they will witness something unannounced to them, and they will understand something they had not heard about. |
| (0.25) | Isa 53:12 |
| So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes, 1 he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, 2 because he willingly submitted 3 to death and was numbered with the rebels, when he lifted up the sin of many and intervened 4 on behalf of the rebels.” |
| (0.25) | Jer 1:3 |
| The Lord also spoke to him when Jehoiakim son of Josiah ruled over Judah, and he continued to speak to him until the fifth month of the eleventh year 1 that Zedekiah son of Josiah ruled over Judah. That was when the people of Jerusalem 2 were taken into exile. 3 |
| (0.25) | Jer 2:19 |
| Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. 1 Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful 2 it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, 3 to show no respect for me,” 4 says the Lord God who rules over all. 5 |
| (0.25) | Jer 3:6 |
| When Josiah was king of Judah, the Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done. 1 You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods. 2 |
| (0.25) | Jer 3:8 |
| She also saw 1 that I gave wayward Israel her divorce papers and sent her away because of her adulterous worship of other gods. 2 Even after her unfaithful sister Judah had seen this, 3 she still was not afraid, and she too went and gave herself like a prostitute to other gods. 4 |
| (0.25) | Jer 5:15 |
| The Lord says, 1 “Listen, 2 nation of Israel! 3 I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand. |
| (0.25) | Jer 11:4 |
| Those are the terms that I charged your ancestors 1 to keep 2 when I brought them out of Egypt, that place which was like an iron-smelting furnace. 3 I said at that time, 4 “Obey me and carry out the terms of the agreement 5 exactly as I commanded you. If you do, 6 you will be my people and I will be your God. 7 |
| (0.25) | Jer 17:11 |
| The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. 1 Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. 2 At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.” 3 |
| (0.25) | Jer 25:3 |
| “For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah 1 until now, the Lord has been speaking to me. I told you over and over again 2 what he said. 3 But you would not listen. |
| (0.25) | Jer 26:10 |
| However, some of the officials 1 of Judah heard about what was happening 2 and they rushed up to the Lord’s temple from the royal palace. They set up court 3 at the entrance of the New Gate of the Lord’s temple. 4 |
| (0.25) | Jer 26:18 |
| “Micah from Moresheth 1 prophesied during the time Hezekiah was king of Judah. 2 He told all the people of Judah, ‘The Lord who rules over all 3 says, “Zion 4 will become a plowed field. Jerusalem 5 will become a pile of rubble. The temple mount will become a mere wooded ridge.”’ 6 |
