Discovery Box| (0.36) | Jer 1:7 |
| The Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ But go 1 to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you. |
| (0.36) | Jer 1:13 |
| The Lord again asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a pot of boiling water; it is tipped toward us from the north.” 1 |
| (0.36) | Jer 2:5 |
| This is what the Lord says: “What fault could your ancestors 1 have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? 2 They paid allegiance to 3 worthless idols, and so became worthless to me. 4 |
| (0.36) | 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 |
| (0.36) | Jer 2:37 |
| Moreover, you will come away from Egypt with your hands covering your faces in sorrow and shame 1 because the Lord will not allow your reliance on them to be successful and you will not gain any help from them. 2 |
| (0.36) | Jer 3:21 |
| “A noise is heard on the hilltops. It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods. Indeed they have followed sinful ways; 1 they have forgotten to be true to the Lord their God. 2 |
| (0.36) | 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 |
| (0.36) | Jer 4:9 |
| “When this happens,” 1 says the Lord, “the king and his officials will lose their courage. The priests will be struck with horror, and the prophets will be speechless in astonishment.” |
| (0.36) | 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 |
| (0.36) | Jer 5:4 |
| I thought, “Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. 1 They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. 2 They do not know what their God requires of them. 3 |
| (0.36) | Jer 5:5 |
| I will go to the leaders 1 and speak with them. Surely they know what the Lord demands. 2 Surely they know what their God requires of them.” 3 Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him. 4 |
| (0.36) | Jer 5:14 |
| Because of that, 1 the Lord, the God who rules over all, 2 said to me, 3 “Because these people have spoken 4 like this, 5 I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire. And I will make this people like wood which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.” 6 |
| (0.36) | Jer 5:15 |
| The Lord says, 1 “Listen, 2 nation of Israel! 3 I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you. It will be a nation that was founded long ago and has lasted for a long time. It will be a nation whose language you will not know. Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand. |
| (0.36) | Jer 6:6 |
| All of this is because 1 the Lord who rules over all 2 has said: ‘Cut down the trees around Jerusalem and build up a siege ramp against its walls. 3 This is the city which is to be punished. 4 Nothing but oppression happens in it. 5 |
| (0.36) | Jer 6:9 |
| This is what the Lord who rules over all 1 said to me: 2 “Those who remain in Israel will be like the grapes thoroughly gleaned 3 from a vine. So go over them again, as though you were a grape harvester passing your hand over the branches one last time.” 4 |
| (0.36) | Jer 6:12 |
| Their houses will be turned over to others as will their fields and their wives. For I will unleash my power 1 against those who live in this land,” says the Lord. |
| (0.36) | Jer 6:21 |
| So, this is what the Lord says: ‘I will assuredly 1 make these people stumble to their doom. 2 Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction. 3 Friends and neighbors will die.’ |
| (0.36) | Jer 7:11 |
| Do you think this temple I have claimed as my own 1 is to be a hideout for robbers? 2 You had better take note! 3 I have seen for myself what you have done! says the Lord. |
| (0.36) | Jer 7:13 |
| You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. 1 But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent! 2 |
| (0.36) | Jer 7:29 |
| So, mourn, 1 you people of this nation. 2 Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the hilltops. For the Lord has decided to reject 3 and forsake this generation that has provoked his wrath!’” 4 |
