Discovery Box| (0.60) | Jer 51:29 |
| The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. 1 For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia 2 a wasteland where no one lives. 3 |
| (0.60) | Jer 51:33 |
| For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘Fair Babylon 1 will be like a threshing floor which has been trampled flat for harvest. The time for her to be cut down and harvested will come very soon.’ 2 |
| (0.60) | Jer 51:34 |
| “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out.” 1 |
| (0.60) | 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 |
| (0.60) | Jer 51:37 |
| Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. 1 It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives. 2 |
| (0.60) | Jer 51:43 |
| The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them. 1 |
| (0.60) | Jer 51:55 |
| For the Lord is ready to destroy Babylon, and put an end to her loud noise. Their waves 1 will roar like turbulent 2 waters. They will make a deafening noise. 3 |
| (0.60) | Jer 51:64 |
| Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments 1 I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.’” The prophecies of Jeremiah end here. 2 |
| (0.60) | Jer 52:1 |
| 1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem 2 for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal 3 daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. |
| (0.60) | Jer 52:3 |
| What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger when he drove them out of his sight. 1 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. |
| (0.60) | Jer 52:15 |
| Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took into exile some of the poor, 1 the rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the craftsmen. |
| (0.60) | Jer 52:17 |
| The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the temple of the Lord, as well as the movable stands and the large bronze basin called the “The Sea.” 1 They took all the bronze to Babylon. |
| (0.60) | Lam 1:3 |
| ג (Gimel) Judah 1 has departed into exile under 2 affliction and harsh oppression. 3 She 4 lives among the nations; she has found no resting place. All who pursued her overtook her in 5 narrow straits. 6 |
| (0.60) | Lam 1:8 |
| ח (Khet) Jerusalem committed terrible sin; 1 therefore she became an object of scorn. 2 All who admired 3 her have despised her 4 because they have seen her nakedness. 5 She groans aloud 6 and turns away in shame. 7 |
| (0.60) | Lam 1:12 |
| ל (Lamed) Is it nothing to you, 1 all you who pass by on the road? 2 Look and see! Is there any pain like mine? The Lord 3 has afflicted me, 4 he 5 has inflicted it on me when 6 he burned with anger. 7 |
| (0.60) | Lam 1:13 |
| מ (Mem) He sent down fire 1 into my bones, and it overcame 2 them. He spread out a trapper’s net 3 for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long. |
| (0.60) | Lam 1:19 |
| ק (Qof) I called for my lovers, 1 but they had deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city. Truly they had 2 searched for food to 3 keep themselves 4 alive. 5 |
| (0.60) | 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 |
| (0.60) | Lam 2:7 |
| ז (Zayin) The Lord 1 rejected 2 his altar and abhorred his temple. 3 He handed over to the enemy 4 her palace walls; the enemy 5 shouted 6 in the Lord’s temple as if it were a feast day. 7 |
| (0.60) | Lam 2:11 |
| כ (Kaf) My eyes are worn out 1 from weeping; 2 my stomach is in knots. 3 My heart 4 is poured out on the ground due to the destruction 5 of my helpless people; 6 children and infants faint in the town squares. |
