Discovery Box| (0.29) | Isa 56:5 |
| I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument 1 that will be better than sons and daughters. I will set up a permanent monument 2 for them that will remain. |
| (0.29) | Isa 57:4 |
| At whom are you laughing? At whom are you opening your mouth and sticking out your tongue? You are the children of rebels, the offspring of liars, 1 |
| (0.29) | Isa 58:1 |
| “Shout loudly! Don’t be quiet! Yell as loud as a trumpet! Confront my people with their rebellious deeds; 1 confront Jacob’s family with their sin! 2 |
| (0.29) | Isa 58:6 |
| No, this is the kind of fast I want. 1 I want you 2 to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, 3 and to break every burdensome yoke. |
| (0.29) | Isa 59:9 |
| For this reason deliverance 1 is far from us 2 and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, 3 but see only darkness; 4 we wait for 5 a bright light, 6 but live 7 in deep darkness. 8 |
| (0.29) | Isa 60:11 |
| Your gates will remain open at all times; they will not be shut during the day or at night, so that the wealth of nations may be delivered, with their kings leading the way. 1 |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | Jer 4:1 |
| “If you, Israel, want to come back,” says the Lord, “if you want to come back to me 1 you must get those disgusting idols 2 out of my sight and must no longer go astray. 3 |
| (0.29) | Jer 5:24 |
| They do not say to themselves, 1 “Let us revere the Lord our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.” 2 |
| (0.29) | Jer 6:19 |
| Hear this, you peoples of the earth: 1 ‘Take note! 2 I am about to bring disaster on these people. It will come as punishment for their scheming. 3 For they have paid no attention to what I have said, 4 and they have rejected my law. |
| (0.29) | Jer 13:21 |
| What will you say 1 when the Lord 2 appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? 3 Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby. 4 |
| (0.29) | Jer 15:1 |
| Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for 1 these people, I would not feel pity for them! 2 Get them away from me! Tell them to go away! 3 |
| (0.29) | 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. |
| (0.29) | Jer 33:24 |
| “You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying, 1 ‘The Lord has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah 2 that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation. 3 |
| (0.29) | Jer 33:26 |
| Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David’s descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, 1 I will restore them 2 and show mercy to them.” |
| (0.29) | Jer 35:6 |
| But they answered, “We do not drink wine because our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us not to. He told us, ‘You and your children must never drink wine. |
| (0.29) | Jer 40:14 |
| They said to him, “Are you at all aware 1 that King Baalis of Ammon has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to kill you?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam would not believe them. |
| (0.29) | Jer 42:5 |
| They answered Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not do just as 1 the Lord sends you to tell us to do. |
| (0.29) | Jer 43:4 |
| So Johanan son of Kareah, all the army officers, and all the rest of the people did not obey the Lord’s command to stay in the land. |
| (0.29) | Jer 47:3 |
| Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies’ horses, the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels. They will not turn back to save their children because they will be paralyzed with fear. 1 |
