Discovery Box| (0.50) | Jer 5:27 |
| Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, 1 their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. 2 That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful. 3 |
| (0.50) | Jer 6:24 |
| The people cry out, 1 “We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! 2 Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby! |
| (0.50) | Jer 8:8 |
| How can you say, “We are wise! We have the law of the Lord”? The truth is, 1 those who teach it 2 have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean. 3 |
| (0.50) | Jer 8:9 |
| Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. 1 Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom do they really have? |
| (0.50) | Jer 9:16 |
| I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors 1 have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords 2 until I have destroyed them.’” 3 |
| (0.50) | Jer 10:21 |
| For our leaders 1 are stupid. They have not sought the Lord’s advice. 2 So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for 3 have all been scattered. |
| (0.50) | Jer 12:8 |
| The people I call my own 1 have turned on me like a lion 2 in the forest. They have roared defiantly 3 at me. So I will treat them as though I hate them. 4 |
| (0.50) | Jer 12:15 |
| But after I have uprooted the people of those nations, I will relent 1 and have pity on them. I will restore the people of each of those nations to their own lands 2 and to their own country. |
| (0.50) | Jer 14:7 |
| Then I said, 1 “O Lord, intervene for the honor of your name 2 even though our sins speak out against us. 3 Indeed, 4 we have turned away from you many times. We have sinned against you. |
| (0.50) | Jer 14:17 |
| “Tell these people this, Jeremiah: 1 ‘My eyes overflow with tears day and night without ceasing. 2 For my people, my dear children, 3 have suffered a crushing blow. They have suffered a serious wound. 4 |
| (0.50) | 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?’ |
| (0.50) | Jer 16:11 |
| Then tell them that the Lord says, 1 ‘It is because your ancestors 2 rejected me and paid allegiance to 3 other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law. 4 |
| (0.50) | Jer 18:13 |
| Therefore, the Lord says, “Ask the people of other nations whether they have heard of anything like this. Israel should have been like a virgin. But she has done something utterly revolting! |
| (0.50) | Jer 18:22 |
| Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. 1 For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into. |
| (0.50) | Jer 22:21 |
| While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. 1 But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.” That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. 2 Indeed, you have never paid attention to me. |
| (0.50) | Jer 23:22 |
| But if they had stood in my inner circle, 1 they would have proclaimed my message to my people. They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways and stop doing the evil things they are doing. |
| (0.50) | Jer 26:5 |
| You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again. 1 But you have not paid any attention to them. |
| (0.50) | Jer 27:6 |
| I have at this time placed all these nations of yours under the power 1 of my servant, 2 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made all the wild animals subject to him. 3 |
| (0.50) | Jer 29:6 |
| Marry and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and allow your daughters get married so that they too can have sons and daughters. Grow in number; do not dwindle away. |
| (0.50) | Jer 31:3 |
| In a far-off land the Lord will manifest himself to them. He will say to them, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you. 1 |
