Discovery Box| (0.35) | Jer 12:1 |
| Lord, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. 1 However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. 2 Why are wicked people successful? 3 Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives? |
| (0.35) | Jer 12:2 |
| You plant them like trees and they put down their roots. 1 They grow prosperous and are very fruitful. 2 They always talk about you, but they really care nothing about you. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 12:3 |
| But you, Lord, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. 1 Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed! 2 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | Jer 13:14 |
| And I will smash them like wine bottles against one another, children and parents alike. 1 I will not show any pity, mercy, or compassion. Nothing will keep me from destroying them,’ 2 says the Lord.” |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | Jer 13:22 |
| You will probably ask yourself, 1 ‘Why have these things happened to me? Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?’ 2 It is because you have sinned so much. 3 |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | Jer 18:6 |
| “I, the Lord, say: 1 ‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? 2 In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’ |
| (0.35) | Jer 18:17 |
| I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them 1 when disaster strikes them.” |
| (0.35) | Jer 20:16 |
| May that man be like the cities 1 that the Lord destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon. |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:22 |
| My judgment will carry off all your leaders like a storm wind! 1 Your allies will go into captivity. Then you will certainly 2 be disgraced and put to shame because of all the wickedness you have done. |
| (0.35) | Jer 23:1 |
| The Lord says, 1 “The leaders of my people are sure to be judged. 2 They were supposed to watch over my people like shepherds watch over their sheep. But they are causing my people to be destroyed and scattered. 3 |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | Jer 25:34 |
| Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! 1 The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 25:38 |
| The Lord is like a lion who has left his lair. 1 So their lands will certainly 2 be laid waste by the warfare of the oppressive nation 3 and by the fierce anger of the Lord.” |
| (0.35) | Jer 29:17 |
| The Lord who rules over all 1 says, ‘I will bring war, 2 starvation, and disease on them. I will treat them like figs that are so rotten 3 they cannot be eaten. |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | Jer 30:14 |
| All your allies have abandoned you. 1 They no longer have any concern for you. For I have attacked you like an enemy would. I have chastened you cruelly. For your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much. 2 |
