Discovery Box| (0.36) | Jer 20:8 |
| For whenever I prophesy, 1 I must cry out, 2 “Violence and destruction are coming!” 3 This message from the Lord 4 has made me an object of continual insults and derision. |
| (0.36) | Jer 20:11 |
| But the Lord is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. 1 Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten. |
| (0.36) | Jer 20:12 |
| O Lord who rules over all, 1 you test and prove the righteous. You see into people’s hearts and minds. 2 Pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause. |
| (0.36) | Jer 20:16 |
| May that man be like the cities 1 that the Lord destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon. |
| (0.36) | Jer 21:1 |
| The Lord spoke to Jeremiah 1 when King Zedekiah 2 sent to him Pashhur son of Malkijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. 3 Zedekiah sent them to Jeremiah to ask, 4 |
| (0.36) | 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 |
| (0.36) | Jer 22:2 |
| Say: ‘Listen, O king of Judah who follows in David’s succession. 1 You, your officials, and your subjects who pass through the gates of this palace must listen to what the Lord says. 2 |
| (0.36) | Jer 22:11 |
| “‘For the Lord has spoken about Shallum son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of Judah but was carried off into exile. He has said, “He will never return to this land. 1 |
| (0.36) | Jer 22:24 |
| The Lord says, 1 “As surely as I am the living God, you, Jeconiah, 2 king of Judah, son of Jehoiakim, will not be the earthly representative of my authority. Indeed, I will take that right away from you. 3 |
| (0.36) | Jer 22:30 |
| The Lord says, “Enroll this man in the register as though he were childless. 1 Enroll him as a man who will not enjoy success during his lifetime. For none of his sons will succeed in occupying the throne of David or ever succeed in ruling over Judah.” |
| (0.36) | Jer 23:4 |
| I will install rulers 1 over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. 2 I, the Lord, promise it! 3 |
| (0.36) | Jer 23:5 |
| “I, the Lord, promise 1 that a new time will certainly come 2 when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, 3 a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding 4 and will do what is just and right in the land. 5 |
| (0.36) | Jer 23:12 |
| So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them.” 1 The Lord affirms it! 2 |
| (0.36) | Jer 23:15 |
| So then I, the Lord who rules over all, 1 have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: 2 ‘I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. 3 For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason 4 that ungodliness 5 has spread throughout the land.’” |
| (0.36) | Jer 23:18 |
| Yet which of them has ever stood in the Lord’s inner circle 1 so they 2 could see and hear what he has to say? 3 Which of them have ever paid attention or listened to what he has said? |
| (0.36) | Jer 23:20 |
| The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he has fully carried out his intended purposes. 1 In days to come 2 you people will come to understand this clearly. 3 |
| (0.36) | Jer 24:3 |
| The Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “I see figs. The good ones look very good. But the bad ones look very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.” |
| (0.36) | Jer 24:5 |
| “I, the Lord, the God of Israel, say: ‘The exiles whom I sent away from here to the land of Babylon 1 are like those good figs. I consider them to be good. |
| (0.36) | Jer 24:7 |
| I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I 1 am the Lord. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly 2 return to me.’ |
| (0.36) | Jer 25:12 |
| “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation 1 for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon 2 an everlasting ruin. 3 I, the Lord, affirm it! 4 |
