Discovery Box| (0.35) | 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? |
| (0.35) | Jer 14:3 |
| The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, 1 but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers 2 empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 14:9 |
| Why should you be like someone who is helpless, 1 like a champion 2 who cannot save anyone? You are indeed with us, 3 and we belong to you. 4 Do not abandon us!” |
| (0.35) | Jer 14:17 |
| “Tell these people this, Jeremiah: 1 ‘My eyes overflow with tears day and night without ceasing. 2 For my people, my dear children, 3 have suffered a crushing blow. They have suffered a serious wound. 4 |
| (0.35) | Jer 15:17 |
| I did not spend my time in the company of other people, laughing and having a good time. I stayed to myself because I felt obligated to you 1 and because I was filled with anger at what they had done. |
| (0.35) | Jer 16:10 |
| “When you tell these people about all this, 1 they will undoubtedly ask you, ‘Why has the Lord threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the Lord our God?’ |
| (0.35) | Jer 16:14 |
| Yet 1 I, the Lord, say: 2 “A new time will certainly come. 3 People now affirm their oaths with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.’ |
| (0.35) | Jer 17:10 |
| I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. 1 I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done. |
| (0.35) | Jer 18:16 |
| So their land will become an object of horror. 1 People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision. 2 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | Jer 19:1 |
| The Lord told Jeremiah, 1 “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. 2 Take with you 3 some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders 4 of the priests. |
| (0.35) | Jer 21:9 |
| Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians who are besieging it will live. They will escape with their lives. 1 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:7 |
| I will send men against it to destroy it 1 with their axes and hatchets. They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns and throw them into the fire. |
| (0.35) | Jer 23:7 |
| “So I, the Lord, say: 1 ‘A new time will certainly come. 2 People now affirm their oaths with “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.” |
| (0.35) | Jer 29:3 |
| He sent it with Elasah son of Shaphan 1 and Gemariah son of Hilkiah. 2 King Zedekiah of Judah had sent these men to Babylon to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. 3 The letter said: |
| (0.35) | Jer 29:11 |
| For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord. 1 ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you 2 a future filled with hope. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 31:3 |
| In a far-off land the Lord will manifest himself to them. He will say to them, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you. 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 31:32 |
| It will not be like the old 1 covenant that I made with their ancestors 2 when I delivered them 3 from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” 4 says the Lord. 5 |
| (0.35) | Jer 32:5 |
| Zedekiah will be carried off to Babylon and will remain there until I have fully dealt with him. 1 I, the Lord, affirm it! 2 Even if you 3 continue to fight against the Babylonians, 4 you cannot win.’” |
