Discovery Box| (0.25) | Psa 138:7 |
| Even when I must walk in the midst of danger, 1 you revive me. You oppose my angry enemies, 2 and your right hand delivers me. |
| (0.25) | Ecc 2:11 |
| Yet when I reflected on everything I had accomplished 1 and on all the effort that I had expended to accomplish it, 2 I concluded: 3 “All these 4 achievements and possessions 5 are ultimately 6 profitless 7 – like chasing the wind! There is nothing gained 8 from them 9 on earth.” |
| (0.25) | Ecc 7:14 |
| In times of prosperity 1 be joyful, but in times of adversity 2 consider this: God has made one as well as the other, 3 so that no one can discover what the future holds. 4 |
| (0.25) | Ecc 8:9 |
| While applying 1 my mind 2 to everything 3 that happens in this world, 4 I have seen all this: Sometimes one person 5 dominates 6 other people 7 to their harm. 8 |
| (0.25) | Isa 17:9 |
| At that time 1 their fortified cities will be like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, 2 which they abandoned because of the Israelites; there will be desolation. |
| (0.25) | Isa 21:3 |
| For this reason my stomach churns; 1 cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed 2 by what I hear, horrified by what I see. |
| (0.25) | Isa 26:11 |
| O Lord, you are ready to act, 1 but they don’t even notice. They will see and be put to shame by your angry judgment against humankind, 2 yes, fire will consume your enemies. 3 |
| (0.25) | Isa 28:4 |
| The withering flower, its beautiful splendor, situated at the head of a rich valley, will be like an early fig before harvest – as soon as someone notices it, he grabs it and swallows it. 1 |
| (0.25) | Isa 36:18 |
| Hezekiah is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.” Has any of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria? 1 |
| (0.25) | Isa 37:3 |
| “This is what Hezekiah says: 1 ‘This is a day of distress, insults, 2 and humiliation, 3 as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. 4 |
| (0.25) | Isa 54:9 |
| “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, 1 when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood 2 would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you. |
| (0.25) | Isa 59:19 |
| In the west, people respect 1 the Lord’s reputation; 2 in the east they recognize his splendor. 3 For he comes like a rushing 4 stream driven on by wind sent from the Lord. 5 |
| (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 8:7 |
| Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. 1 The turtledove, swallow, and crane 2 recognize 3 the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to 4 what I, the Lord, require of them. 5 |
| (0.25) | Jer 8:8 |
| How can you say, “We are wise! We have the law of the Lord”? The truth is, 1 those who teach it 2 have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean. 3 |
| (0.25) | Jer 11:12 |
| Then those living in the towns of Judah and in Jerusalem will 1 go and cry out for help to the gods to whom they have been sacrificing. However, those gods will by no means 2 be able to save them when disaster strikes them. |
| (0.25) | Jer 22:21 |
| While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. 1 But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.” That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. 2 Indeed, you have never paid attention to me. |
| (0.25) | Jer 23:38 |
| But just suppose you continue to say, ‘The message of the Lord is burdensome.’ Here is what the Lord says will happen: ‘I sent word to you that you must not say, “The Lord’s message is burdensome.” But you used the words “The Lord’s message is burdensome” anyway. |
| (0.25) | Jer 36:3 |
| Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the disaster I intend to bring on them, they will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing. 1 If they do, I will forgive their sins and the wicked things they have done.” 2 |
| (0.25) | Jer 43:11 |
| He will come and attack Egypt. Those who are destined to die of disease will die of disease. Those who are destined to be carried off into exile will be carried off into exile. Those who are destined to die in war will die in war. 1 |
