Discovery Box| (0.25) | 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 |
| (0.25) | Jer 14:21 |
| For the honor of your name, 1 do not treat Jerusalem 2 with contempt. Do not treat with disdain the place where your glorious throne sits. 3 Be mindful of your covenant with us. Do not break it! 4 |
| (0.25) | Jer 17:11 |
| The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. 1 Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. 2 At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.” 3 |
| (0.25) | Jer 21:2 |
| “Please ask the Lord to come and help us, 1 because King Nebuchadnezzar 2 of Babylon is attacking us. Maybe the Lord will perform one of his miracles as in times past and make him stop attacking us and leave.” 3 |
| (0.25) | Jer 23:7 |
| “So I, the Lord, say: 1 ‘A new time will certainly come. 2 People now affirm their oaths with “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.” |
| (0.25) | Jer 24:2 |
| One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. 1 The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten. |
| (0.25) | Jer 30:7 |
| Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! 1 There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it. 2 |
| (0.25) | Jer 31:6 |
| Yes, a time is coming when watchmen 1 will call out on the mountains of Ephraim, “Come! Let us go to Zion to worship the Lord our God!”’” 2 |
| (0.25) | Jer 31:15 |
| The Lord says, “A sound is heard in Ramah, 1 a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.” 2 |
| (0.25) | Jer 34:7 |
| He did this while the army of the king of Babylon was attacking Jerusalem and the cities of Lachish and Azekah. He was attacking these cities because they were the only fortified cities of Judah which were still holding out. 1 |
| (0.25) | Jer 42:16 |
| the wars you fear will catch up with you there in the land of Egypt. The starvation you are worried about will follow you there to 1 Egypt. You will die there. 2 |
| (0.25) | Jer 44:3 |
| This happened because of the wickedness the people living there did. 1 They made me angry 2 by worshiping and offering sacrifice to 3 other gods whom neither they nor you nor your ancestors 4 previously knew. 5 |
| (0.25) | Jer 50:37 |
| Destructive forces will come against her horses and her 1 chariots. Destructive forces will come against all the foreign troops within her; 2 they will be as frightened as women! 3 Destructive forces will come against her treasures; they will be taken away as plunder! |
| (0.25) | Jer 51:3 |
| Do not give her archers time to string their bows or to put on their coats of armor. 1 Do not spare any of her young men. Completely destroy 2 her whole army. |
| (0.25) | Jer 51:16 |
| When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it. |
| (0.25) | Jer 51:35 |
| The person who lives in Zion says, “May Babylon pay for the violence done to me and to my relatives.” Jerusalem says, “May those living in Babylonia pay for the bloodshed of my people.” 1 |
| (0.25) | Lam 1:15 |
| ס (Samek) He rounded up 1 all my mighty ones; 2 The Lord 3 did this 4 in 5 my midst. He summoned an assembly 6 against me to shatter my young men. The Lord has stomped like grapes 7 the virgin daughter, Judah. 8 |
| (0.25) | Lam 1:17 |
| פ (Pe) Zion spread out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The Lord has issued a decree against Jacob; his neighbors 1 have become his enemies. Jerusalem has become like filthy garbage 2 in their midst. 3 |
| (0.25) | Lam 1:22 |
| ת (Tav) Let all their wickedness come before you; afflict 1 them just as you have afflicted 2 me 3 because of all my acts of rebellion. 4 For my groans are many, and my heart is sick with sorrow. 5 |
| (0.25) | Lam 2:9 |
| ט (Tet) Her city gates have fallen 1 to the ground; he smashed to bits 2 the bars that lock her gates. 3 Her king and princes were taken into exile; 4 there is no more guidance available. 5 As for her prophets, they no longer receive 6 a vision from the Lord. |
