Discovery Box| (0.01) | Jer 9:8 |
| Their tongues are like deadly arrows. 1 They are always telling lies. 2 Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them. 3 |
| (0.01) | Jer 10:22 |
| Listen! News is coming even now. 1 The rumble of a great army is heard approaching 2 from a land in the north. 3 It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live. |
| (0.01) | Jer 11:16 |
| I, the Lord, once called 1 you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you 2 on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. 3 Then all your branches will be good for nothing. 4 |
| (0.01) | Jer 11:17 |
| For though I, the Lord who rules over all, 1 planted you in the land, 2 I now decree that disaster will come on you 3 because the nations of Israel and Judah have done evil and have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal.” 4 |
| (0.01) | Jer 11:22 |
| So the Lord who rules over all 1 said, “I will surely 2 punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. 3 Their sons and daughters will die of starvation. |
| (0.01) | Jer 12:13 |
| My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. 1 They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests 2 because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger. 3 |
| (0.01) | Jer 12:15 |
| But after I have uprooted the people of those nations, I will relent 1 and have pity on them. I will restore the people of each of those nations to their own lands 2 and to their own country. |
| (0.01) | 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 |
| (0.01) | 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 |
| (0.01) | Jer 14:3 |
| The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, 1 but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers 2 empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands. 3 |
| (0.01) | Jer 14:10 |
| Then the Lord spoke about these people. 1 “They truly 2 love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. 3 So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind 4 the wrongs they have done 5 and punish them for their sins.” |
| (0.01) | Jer 14:12 |
| Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. 1 Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.” 2 |
| (0.01) | Jer 15:11 |
| The Lord said, “Jerusalem, 1 I will surely send you away for your own good. I will surely 2 bring the enemy upon you in a time of trouble and distress. |
| (0.01) | Jer 16:3 |
| For I, the Lord, tell you what will happen to 1 the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers. 2 |
| (0.01) | Jer 16:13 |
| So I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have ever known. There you must worship other gods day and night, for I will show you no mercy.’” |
| (0.01) | 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 |
| (0.01) | Jer 17:24 |
| The Lord says, 1 ‘You must make sure to obey me. You must not bring any loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day. You must set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not do any work on that day. |
| (0.01) | Jer 18:20 |
| Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. 1 Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf 2 to keep you from venting your anger on them. 3 |
| (0.01) | 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! |
| (0.01) | Jer 20:11 |
| But the Lord is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. 1 Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten. |
