Discovery Box| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | Jer 2:13 |
| “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, 1 and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.” |
| (0.11) | Jer 4:2 |
| You must be truthful, honest and upright when you take an oath saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’ 1 If you do, 2 the nations will pray to be as blessed by him as you are and will make him the object of their boasting.” 3 |
| (0.11) | Jer 4:5 |
| The Lord said, 1 “Announce 2 this in Judah and proclaim it in Jerusalem: 3 ‘Sound the trumpet 4 throughout the land!’ Shout out loudly, ‘Gather together! Let us flee into the fortified cities!’ |
| (0.11) | Jer 4:7 |
| Like a lion that has come up from its lair 1 the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. 2 He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited. |
| (0.11) | Jer 4:22 |
| The Lord answered, 1 “This will happen 2 because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. 3 They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.” |
| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | Jer 5:28 |
| That is how 1 they have grown fat and sleek. 2 There is no limit to the evil things they do. 3 They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor. |
| (0.11) | Jer 6:7 |
| As a well continually pours out fresh water so it continually pours out wicked deeds. 1 Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it. 2 All I see are sick and wounded people.’ 3 |
| (0.11) | Jer 6:23 |
| Its soldiers are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. They sound like the roaring sea as they ride forth on their horses. Lined up in formation like men going into battle to attack you, Daughter Zion.’” 1 |
| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | Jer 7:30 |
| The Lord says, “I have rejected them because 1 the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. 2 They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple 3 which I have claimed for my own 4 and have defiled it. |
| (0.11) | Jer 9:4 |
| Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. 1 For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. 2 And all of his friends will tell lies about him. |
| (0.11) | Jer 11:15 |
| The Lord says to the people of Judah, 1 “What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? 2 Many of you have done wicked things. 3 Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings 4 that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them? 5 |
| (0.11) | Jer 12:12 |
| A destructive army 1 will come marching over the hilltops in the desert. For the Lord will use them as his destructive weapon 2 against 3 everyone from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe. 4 |
| (0.11) | Jer 14:8 |
| You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner 1 in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night? |
| (0.11) | 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. |
| (0.11) | Jer 19:2 |
| Go out to the part of the Hinnom Valley which is near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. 1 Announce there what I tell you. 2 |
| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | Jer 22:28 |
| This man, Jeconiah, will be like a broken pot someone threw away. He will be like a clay vessel 1 that no one wants. 2 Why will he and his children be forced into exile? Why will they be thrown out into a country they know nothing about? 3 |
