Discovery Box| (0.11) | Jer 11:20 |
| So I said to the Lord, 1 “O Lord who rules over all, 2 you are a just judge! You examine people’s hearts and minds. 3 I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.” 4 |
| (0.11) | Jer 12:9 |
| The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas. 1 But other birds of prey are all around them. 2 Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts. Let them come and destroy these people I call my own. 3 |
| (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 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 |
| (0.11) | Jer 15:4 |
| I will make all the people in all the kingdoms of the world horrified at what has happened to them because of what Hezekiah’s son Manasseh, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.” 1 |
| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | Jer 15:14 |
| I will make you serve your enemies 1 in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.” |
| (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 16:12 |
| And you have acted even more wickedly than your ancestors! Each one of you has followed the stubborn inclinations of your own wicked heart and not obeyed me. 1 |
| (0.11) | Jer 19:6 |
| So I, the Lord, say: 1 “The time will soon come that people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Hinnom Valley. But they will call this valley 2 the Valley of Slaughter! |
| (0.11) | Jer 19:8 |
| I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn 1 because of all the disasters that have happened to it. 2 |
| (0.11) | Jer 20:7 |
| Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. 1 Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me. |
| (0.11) | Jer 22:20 |
| People of Jerusalem, 1 go up to Lebanon and cry out in mourning. Go to the land of Bashan and cry out loudly. Cry out in mourning from the mountains of Moab. 2 For your allies 3 have all been defeated. |
| (0.11) | Jer 22:23 |
| You may feel as secure as a bird nesting in the cedars of Lebanon. But oh how you 1 will groan 2 when the pains of judgment come on you. They will be like those of a woman giving birth to a baby. 3 |
| (0.11) | 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.’” |
| (0.11) | 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? |
| (0.11) | Jer 23:36 |
| You must no longer say that the Lord’s message is burdensome. 1 For what is ‘burdensome’ 2 really pertains to what a person himself says. 3 You are misrepresenting 4 the words of our God, the living God, the Lord who rules over all. 5 |
| (0.11) | Jer 23:38 |
| But just suppose you continue to say, ‘The message of the Lord is burdensome.’ Here is what the Lord says will happen: ‘I sent word to you that you must not say, “The Lord’s message is burdensome.” But you used the words “The Lord’s message is burdensome” anyway. |
| (0.11) | 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. |
| (0.11) | Jer 24:6 |
| I will look after their welfare 1 and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land 2 and will not uproot them. 3 |
