Discovery Box| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | Jer 7:6 |
| Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. 1 Stop killing innocent people 2 in this land. Stop paying allegiance to 3 other gods. That will only bring about your ruin. 4 |
| (0.12) | Jer 7:14 |
| So I will destroy this temple which I have claimed as my own, 1 this temple that you are trusting to protect you. I will destroy this place that I gave to you and your ancestors, 2 just like I destroyed Shiloh. 3 |
| (0.12) | Jer 8:3 |
| However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,” 1 says the Lord who rules over all. 2 |
| (0.12) | Jer 8:6 |
| I have listened to them very carefully, 1 but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, “I have done wrong!” 2 All of them persist in their own wayward course 3 like a horse charging recklessly into battle. |
| (0.12) | Jer 8:7 |
| Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. 1 The turtledove, swallow, and crane 2 recognize 3 the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to 4 what I, the Lord, require of them. 5 |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | Jer 10:16 |
| The Lord, who is the inheritance 1 of Jacob’s descendants, 2 is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. 3 He is known as the Lord who rules over all.” 4 |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | Jer 13:21 |
| What will you say 1 when the Lord 2 appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? 3 Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby. 4 |
| (0.12) | Jer 15:6 |
| I, the Lord, say: 1 ‘You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.’ 2 So I have unleashed my power against you 3 and have begun to destroy you. 4 I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!” 5 |
| (0.12) | Jer 15:8 |
| Their widows will become in my sight more numerous 1 than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. 2 I will cause anguish 3 and terror to fall suddenly upon them. 4 |
| (0.12) | Jer 15:10 |
| I said, 1 “Oh, mother, how I regret 2 that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. 3 I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.” 4 |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | Jer 17:6 |
| They will be like a shrub 1 in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live. |
| (0.12) | Jer 17:10 |
| I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. 1 I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done. |
| (0.12) | Jer 17:13 |
| You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. 1 All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you 2 will be consigned to the nether world. 3 For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life. 4 |
| (0.12) | Jer 17:16 |
| But I have not pestered you to bring disaster. 1 I have not desired the time of irreparable devastation. 2 You know that. You are fully aware of every word that I have spoken. 3 |
| (0.12) | Jer 17:18 |
| May those who persecute me be disgraced. Do not let me be disgraced. May they be dismayed. Do not let me be dismayed. Bring days of disaster on them. Bring on them the destruction they deserve.” 1 |
