Discovery Box| (1.00) | Jer 44:3 |
| This happened because of the wickedness the people living there did. 1 They made me angry 2 by worshiping and offering sacrifice to 3 other gods whom neither they nor you nor your ancestors 4 previously knew. 5 |
| (1.00) | Jer 44:8 |
| That is what will result from your making me angry by what you are doing. 1 You are making me angry by sacrificing to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you live. You will be destroyed for doing that! You will become an example used in curses 2 and an object of ridicule among all the nations of the earth. 3 |
| (1.00) | Jer 44:16 |
| “We will not listen to what you claim the Lord has spoken to us! 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 44:17 |
| Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. 1 We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven 2 just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles. 3 |
| (1.00) | Jer 44:18 |
| But ever since we stopped sacrificing and pouring out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven, we have been in great need. Our people have died in wars or of starvation.” 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 44:19 |
| The women added, 1 “We did indeed sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven. But it was with the full knowledge and approval of our husbands that we made cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her.” 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 44:24 |
| Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people, particularly to all the women. 1 “Listen to what the Lord has to say all you people of Judah who are in Egypt. |
| (1.00) | Jer 44:25 |
| The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘You women 1 have confirmed by your actions what you vowed with your lips! You said, “We will certainly carry out our vows to sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.” Well, then fulfill your vows! Carry them out!’ 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 44:26 |
| But 1 listen to what the Lord has to say, all you people of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt. The Lord says, ‘I hereby swear by my own great name that none of the people of Judah who are living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name in their oaths! Never again will any of them use it in an oath saying, “As surely as the Lord God lives….” 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 44:28 |
| Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! 1 Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, 2 mine or theirs.’ |
| (1.00) | Jer 44:29 |
| Moreover the Lord says, 1 ‘I will make something happen to prove that I will punish you in this place. I will do it so that you will know that my threats to bring disaster on you will prove true. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 45:1 |
| The prophet Jeremiah spoke to Baruch son of Neriah while he was writing down in a scroll the words that Jeremiah spoke to him. 1 This happened in the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 45:2 |
| “The Lord God of Israel has a message for you, Baruch. |
| (1.00) | Jer 45:3 |
| ‘You have said, “I feel so hopeless! 1 For the Lord has added sorrow to my suffering. 2 I am worn out from groaning. I can’t find any rest.”’” |
| (1.00) | Jer 45:5 |
| Are you looking for great things for yourself? Do not look for such things. For I, the Lord, affirm 1 that I am about to bring disaster on all humanity. 2 But I will allow you to escape with your life 3 wherever you go.”’” |
| (1.00) | Jer 46:1 |
| The Lord spoke to Jeremiah about the nations. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 46:8 |
| Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt says, ‘I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.’ |
| (1.00) | Jer 46:12 |
| The nations will hear of your devastating defeat. 1 your cries of distress will echo throughout the earth. In the panic of their flight one soldier will trip over another and both of them will fall down defeated.” 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 46:13 |
| The Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about Nebuchadnezzar coming to attack the land of Egypt. 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 46:16 |
| I will make many stumble. 1 They will fall over one another in their hurry to flee. 2 They will say, ‘Get up! Let’s go back to our own people. Let’s go back to our homelands because the enemy is coming to destroy us.’ 3 |
