Discovery Box| (0.35) | Jer 13:7 |
| So I went to Perath and dug up 1 the shorts from the place where I had buried them. I found 2 that they were ruined; they were good for nothing. |
| (0.35) | Jer 13:19 |
| The gates of the towns in southern Judah will be shut tight. 1 No one will be able to go in or out of them. 2 All Judah will be carried off into exile. They will be completely carried off into exile.’” 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 13:20 |
| Then I said, 1 “Look up, Jerusalem, 2 and see the enemy 3 that is coming from the north. Where now is the flock of people that were entrusted to your care? 4 Where now are the ‘sheep’ that you take such pride in? 5 |
| (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 13:23 |
| But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian 1 change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots? 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 14:2 |
| “The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. 1 Cries of distress come up to me 2 from Jerusalem. 3 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | Jer 14:9 |
| Why should you be like someone who is helpless, 1 like a champion 2 who cannot save anyone? You are indeed with us, 3 and we belong to you. 4 Do not abandon us!” |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | Jer 15:5 |
| The Lord cried out, 1 “Who in the world 2 will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will grieve over you? Who will stop long enough 3 to inquire about how you are doing? 4 |
| (0.35) | Jer 15:6 |
| I, the Lord, say: 1 ‘You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.’ 2 So I have unleashed my power against you 3 and have begun to destroy you. 4 I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!” 5 |
| (0.35) | Jer 16:6 |
| Rich and poor alike will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned. People will not cut their bodies or shave off their hair to show their grief for them. 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 16:10 |
| “When you tell these people about all this, 1 they will undoubtedly ask you, ‘Why has the Lord threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the Lord our God?’ |
| (0.35) | Jer 16:11 |
| Then tell them that the Lord says, 1 ‘It is because your ancestors 2 rejected me and paid allegiance to 3 other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law. 4 |
| (0.35) | Jer 17:10 |
| I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. 1 I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done. |
| (0.35) | Jer 17:16 |
| But I have not pestered you to bring disaster. 1 I have not desired the time of irreparable devastation. 2 You know that. You are fully aware of every word that I have spoken. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 17:20 |
| As you stand in those places 1 announce, ‘Listen, all you people who pass through these gates. Listen, all you kings of Judah, all you people of Judah and all you citizens of Jerusalem. Listen to what the Lord says. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 17:22 |
| Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. 1 But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the Lord, 2 as I commanded your ancestors. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 20:3 |
| But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord’s name for you is not ‘Pashhur’ but ‘Terror is Everywhere.’ 1 |
