Discovery Box| (1.00) | Jer 2:8 |
| Your priests 1 did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ 2 Those responsible for teaching my law 3 did not really know me. 4 Your rulers rebelled against me. Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal. 5 They all worshiped idols that could not help them. 6 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Jer 2:20 |
| “Indeed, 1 long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. 2 You said, ‘I will not serve you.’ 3 Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers. 4 |
| (1.00) | Jer 2:21 |
| I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes? 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 2:23 |
| “How can you say, ‘I have not made myself unclean. I have not paid allegiance to 1 the gods called Baal.’ Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom! 2 Think about the things you have done there! You are like a flighty, young female camel that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path. 3 |
| (1.00) | Jer 2:31 |
| You people of this generation, listen to what the Lord says. “Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? 1 Why then do you 2 say, ‘We are free to wander. 3 We will not come to you any more?’ |
| (1.00) | Jer 2:33 |
| “My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! 1 Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two! 2 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | 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 |
| (1.00) | Jer 3:9 |
| Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land 1 through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 3:12 |
| “Go and shout this message to my people in the countries in the north. 1 Tell them, ‘Come back to me, wayward Israel,’ says the Lord. ‘I will not continue to look on you with displeasure. 2 For I am merciful,’ says the Lord. ‘I will not be angry with you forever. |
| (1.00) | Jer 3:13 |
| However, you must confess that you have done wrong, 1 and that you have rebelled against the Lord your God. You must confess 2 that you have given yourself to 3 foreign gods under every green tree, and have not obeyed my commands,’ says the Lord. |
| (1.00) | Jer 3:19 |
| “I thought to myself, 1 ‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! 2 What a joy it would be for me to give 3 you a pleasant land, the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!’ 4 I thought you would call me, ‘Father’ 5 and would never cease being loyal to me. 6 |
| (1.00) | Jer 3:23 |
| We know our noisy worship of false gods on the hills and mountains did not help us. 1 We know that the Lord our God is the only one who can deliver Israel. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 3:24 |
| From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal, has taken away 1 all that our ancestors 2 worked for. It has taken away our flocks and our herds, and even our sons and daughters. |
| (1.00) | Jer 3:25 |
| Let us acknowledge 1 our shame. Let us bear the disgrace that we deserve. 2 For we have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors. From earliest times to this very day we have not obeyed the Lord our God.’ |
| (1.00) | Jer 4:2 |
| You must be truthful, honest and upright when you take an oath saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’ 1 If you do, 2 the nations will pray to be as blessed by him as you are and will make him the object of their boasting.” 3 |
| (1.00) | Jer 4:10 |
| In response to all this 1 I said, “Ah, Lord God, 2 you have surely allowed 3 the people of Judah and Jerusalem 4 to be deceived by those who say, ‘You will be safe!’ 5 But in fact a sword is already at our throats.” 6 |
| (1.00) | Jer 4:11 |
| “At that time the people of Judah and Jerusalem 1 will be told, ‘A scorching wind will sweep down from the hilltops in the desert on 2 my dear people. 3 It will not be a gentle breeze for winnowing the grain and blowing away the chaff. 4 |
