Discovery Box| (0.22) | Isa 53:7 |
| He was treated harshly and afflicted, 1 but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth. 2 |
| (0.22) | Isa 54:4 |
| Don’t be afraid, for you will not be put to shame! Don’t be intimidated, 1 for you will not be humiliated! You will forget about the shame you experienced in your youth; you will no longer remember the disgrace of your abandonment. 2 |
| (0.22) | Isa 58:7 |
| I want you 1 to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. 2 When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood! 3 |
| (0.22) | Isa 59:4 |
| No one is concerned about justice; 1 no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words 2 and tell lies; they conceive of oppression 3 and give birth to sin. |
| (0.22) | Isa 65:1 |
| “I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; 1 I appeared to those who did not look for me. 2 I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’ to a nation that did not invoke 3 my name. |
| (0.22) | Isa 66:9 |
| “Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?” asks the Lord. “Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?” asks your God. 1 |
| (0.22) | Jer 1:5 |
| “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb 1 I chose you. 2 Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.” |
| (0.22) | Jer 15:16 |
| As your words came to me I drank them in, 1 and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you. 2 |
| (0.22) | Jer 15:18 |
| Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?” 1 |
| (0.22) | Jer 20:7 |
| Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. 1 Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me. |
| (0.22) | Jer 22:10 |
| “‘Do not weep for the king who was killed. Do not grieve for him. But weep mournfully for the king who has gone into exile. For he will never return to see his native land again. 1 |
| (0.22) | Jer 22:21 |
| While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. 1 But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.” That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. 2 Indeed, you have never paid attention to me. |
| (0.22) | Jer 23:9 |
| Here is what the Lord says concerning the false prophets: 2 My heart and my mind are deeply disturbed. I tremble all over. 3 I am like a drunk person, like a person who has had too much wine, 4 because of the way the Lord and his holy word are being mistreated. 5 |
| (0.22) | Jer 25:18 |
| I made Jerusalem 1 and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. 2 I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object 3 of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. 4 Such is already becoming the case! 5 |
| (0.22) | Jer 25:32 |
| The Lord who rules over all 1 says, ‘Disaster will soon come on one nation after another. 2 A mighty storm of military destruction 3 is rising up from the distant parts of the earth.’ |
| (0.22) | Jer 29:7 |
| Work to see that the city where I sent you as exiles enjoys peace and prosperity. Pray to the Lord for it. For as it prospers you will prosper.’ |
| (0.22) | Jer 32:36 |
| “You and your people 1 are right in saying, ‘War, 2 starvation, and disease are sure to make this city fall into the hands of the king of Babylon.’ 3 But now I, the Lord God of Israel, have something further to say about this city: 4 |
| (0.22) | Jer 33:24 |
| “You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying, 1 ‘The Lord has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah 2 that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation. 3 |
| (0.22) | Jer 38:7 |
| An Ethiopian, Ebed Melech, 1 a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put 2 in the cistern. While the king was holding court 3 at the Benjamin Gate, |
| (0.22) | Jer 43:3 |
| But Baruch son of Neriah is stirring you up against us. 1 He wants to hand us over 2 to the Babylonians 3 so that they will kill us or carry us off into exile in Babylon.” |
