Discovery Box| (0.10) | Jer 12:14 |
| “I, the Lord, also have something to say concerning 1 the wicked nations who surround my land 2 and have attacked and plundered 3 the land that I gave to my people as a permanent possession. 4 I say: ‘I will uproot the people of those nations from their lands and I will free the people of Judah who have been taken there. 5 |
| (0.10) | Jer 14:14 |
| Then the Lord said to me, “Those prophets are prophesying lies while claiming my authority! 1 I did not send them. I did not commission them. 2 I did not speak to them. They are prophesying to these people false visions, worthless predictions, 3 and the delusions of their own mind. |
| (0.10) | Jer 14:16 |
| The people to whom they are prophesying will die through war and famine. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem 1 and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to the men and their wives, their sons, and their daughters. 2 For I will pour out on them the destruction they deserve.” 3 |
| (0.10) | Jer 14:19 |
| Then I said, “Lord, 1 have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise 2 the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? 3 We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror. 4 |
| (0.10) | Jer 16:15 |
| But in that time they will affirm them with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.’ At that time I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors.” 1 |
| (0.10) | Jer 17:8 |
| They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit. |
| (0.10) | Jer 20:5 |
| I will hand over all the wealth of this city to their enemies. I will hand over to them all the fruits of the labor of the people of this city and all their prized possessions, as well as all the treasures of the kings of Judah. Their enemies will seize it all as plunder 1 and carry it off to Babylon. |
| (0.10) | Jer 22:3 |
| The Lord says, “Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those 1 who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. 2 Do not kill innocent people 3 in this land. |
| (0.10) | Jer 22:4 |
| If you are careful to 1 obey these commands, then the kings who follow in David’s succession and ride in chariots or on horses will continue to come through the gates of this palace, as will their officials and their subjects. 2 |
| (0.10) | Jer 23:8 |
| But at that time they will affirm them with “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the descendants of the former nation of Israel 1 from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished 2 them.” 3 At that time they will live in their own land.’” |
| (0.10) | Jer 23:14 |
| But I see the prophets of Jerusalem 1 doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. 2 So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. 3 I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah. 4 |
| (0.10) | Jer 26:9 |
| How dare you claim the Lord’s authority to prophesy such things! How dare you claim his authority to prophesy that this temple will become like Shiloh and that this city will become an uninhabited ruin!” 1 Then all the people crowded around Jeremiah. |
| (0.10) | Jer 29:26 |
| “The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada. 1 He has put you in charge in the Lord’s temple of controlling 2 any lunatic 3 who pretends to be a prophet. 4 And it is your duty to put any such person in the stocks 5 with an iron collar around his neck. 6 |
| (0.10) | Jer 29:32 |
| Because he has done this,” 1 the Lord says, “I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his whole family. There will not be any of them left to experience the good things that I will do for my people. I, the Lord, affirm it! For he counseled rebellion against the Lord.”’” 2 |
| (0.10) | Jer 31:34 |
| “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. 1 For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” 2 says the Lord. “For 3 I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.” |
| (0.10) | Jer 32:24 |
| Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city 1 in order to capture it. War, 2 starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians 3 who are attacking it. 4 Lord, 5 you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place. 6 |
| (0.10) | Jer 32:32 |
| I am determined to do so because the people of Israel and Judah have made me angry with all their wickedness – they, their kings, their officials, their priests, their prophets, and especially the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem 1 have done this wickedness. 2 |
| (0.10) | Jer 36:2 |
| “Get a scroll. 1 Write on it everything I have told you to say 2 about Israel, Judah, and all the other nations since I began to speak to you in the reign of Josiah until now. 3 |
| (0.10) | Jer 36:9 |
| All the people living in Jerusalem 1 and all the people who came into Jerusalem from the towns of Judah came to observe a fast before the Lord. The fast took place in the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah. 2 |
| (0.10) | Jer 36:31 |
| I will punish him and his descendants and the officials who serve him for the wicked things they have done. 1 I will bring on them, the citizens of Jerusalem, 2 and the people of Judah all the disaster that I threatened to do to them. I will punish them because I threatened them but they still paid no heed.”’” 3 |
