Discovery Box| (0.11) | Isa 9:17 |
| So the sovereign master was not pleased 1 with their young men, he took no pity 2 on their orphans and widows; for the whole nation was godless 3 and did wicked things, 4 every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. 5 Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again. 6 |
| (0.11) | Isa 10:14 |
| My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping.” 1 |
| (0.11) | Isa 29:16 |
| Your thinking is perverse! 1 Should the potter be regarded as clay? 2 Should the thing made say 3 about its maker, “He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter, “He doesn’t understand”? |
| (0.11) | Isa 47:8 |
| So now, listen to this, O one who lives so lavishly, 1 who lives securely, who says to herself, 2 ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! 3 I will never have to live as a widow; I will never lose my children.’ 4 |
| (0.11) | Isa 49:18 |
| Look all around you! 1 All of them gather to you. As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry; you will put them on as if you were a bride. |
| (0.11) | Isa 49:26 |
| I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. 1 Then all humankind 2 will recognize that I am the Lord, your deliverer, your protector, 3 the powerful ruler of Jacob.” 4 |
| (0.11) | Isa 51:23 |
| I will put it into the hand of your tormentors 1 who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.” |
| (0.11) | Isa 53:12 |
| So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes, 1 he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, 2 because he willingly submitted 3 to death and was numbered with the rebels, when he lifted up the sin of many and intervened 4 on behalf of the rebels.” |
| (0.11) | Isa 54:1 |
| “Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth! Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one are more numerous than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord. |
| (0.11) | 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?’ |
| (0.11) | Jer 5:3 |
| Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. 1 But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. 2 Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. 3 They refuse to change their ways. 4 |
| (0.11) | Jer 8:14 |
| The people say, 1 “Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. 2 Let us at least die there fighting, 3 since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment 4 because we have sinned against him. 5 |
| (0.11) | Jer 14:19 |
| Then I said, “Lord, 1 have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise 2 the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? 3 We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror. 4 |
| (0.11) | Jer 16:10 |
| “When you tell these people about all this, 1 they will undoubtedly ask you, ‘Why has the Lord threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the Lord our God?’ |
| (0.11) | Jer 16:19 |
| Then I said, 1 “Lord, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. 2 Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say, ‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods – worthless idols that could not help them at all. 3 |
| (0.11) | Jer 19:11 |
| Tell them the Lord who rules over all says, 1 ‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. 2 I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair. 3 The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’ 4 |
| (0.11) | Jer 19:13 |
| The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies 1 just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars 2 and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.’” |
| (0.11) | Jer 19:15 |
| “The Lord God of Israel who rules over all 1 says, ‘I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it 2 all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused 3 to pay any attention to what I have said!’” |
| (0.11) | Jer 23:14 |
| But I see the prophets of Jerusalem 1 doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. 2 So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. 3 I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah. 4 |
| (0.11) | Jer 26:19 |
| King Hezekiah and all the people of Judah did not put him to death, did they? Did not Hezekiah show reverence for the Lord and seek the Lord’s favor? 1 Did not 2 the Lord forgo destroying them 3 as he threatened he would? But we are on the verge of bringing great disaster on ourselves.” 4 |
