Discovery Box| (0.18) | Jer 12:1 |
| Lord, you have always been fair whenever I have complained to you. 1 However, I would like to speak with you about the disposition of justice. 2 Why are wicked people successful? 3 Why do all dishonest people have such easy lives? |
| (0.18) | Jer 12:12 |
| A destructive army 1 will come marching over the hilltops in the desert. For the Lord will use them as his destructive weapon 2 against 3 everyone from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe. 4 |
| (0.18) | Jer 16:14 |
| Yet 1 I, the Lord, say: 2 “A new time will certainly come. 3 People now affirm their oaths with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.’ |
| (0.18) | Jer 17:6 |
| They will be like a shrub 1 in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live. |
| (0.18) | Jer 21:13 |
| Listen, you 1 who sit enthroned above the valley on a rocky plateau. I am opposed to you,’ 2 says the Lord. 3 ‘You boast, “No one can swoop down on us. No one can penetrate into our places of refuge.” 4 |
| (0.18) | Jer 22:15 |
| Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in 1 building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. 2 He did what was just and right. 3 So things went well with him. |
| (0.18) | Jer 23:7 |
| “So I, the Lord, say: 1 ‘A new time will certainly come. 2 People now affirm their oaths with “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.” |
| (0.18) | Jer 26:3 |
| Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. 1 If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them 2 as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing. 3 |
| (0.18) | Jer 27:11 |
| Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to 1 the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation 2 in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the Lord, affirm it!”’” 3 |
| (0.18) | Jer 29:28 |
| For he has even sent a message to us here in Babylon. He wrote and told us, 1 “You will be there a long time. Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.”’” 2 |
| (0.18) | Jer 30:18 |
| The Lord says, “I will restore the ruined houses of the descendants of Jacob. I will show compassion on their ruined homes. 1 Every city will be rebuilt on its former ruins. 2 Every fortified dwelling will occupy its traditional site. 3 |
| (0.18) | Jer 38:16 |
| So King Zedekiah made a secret promise to Jeremiah and sealed it with an oath. He promised, 1 “As surely as the Lord lives who has given us life and breath, 2 I promise you this: I will not kill you or hand you over to those men who want to kill you.” 3 |
| (0.18) | Jer 39:14 |
| sent and had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guardhouse. They turned him over to Gedaliah, 1 the son of Ahikam and the grandson of Shaphan, to take him home with him. 2 But Jeremiah stayed among the people. 3 |
| (0.18) | Jer 42:14 |
| You must not say, ‘No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war, 1 or hear the enemy’s trumpet calls, 2 or starve for lack of food.’ 3 |
| (0.18) | Jer 42:20 |
| You are making a fatal mistake. 1 For you sent me to the Lord your God and asked me, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us. Tell us what the Lord our God says and we will do it.’ 2 |
| (0.18) | Jer 43:4 |
| So Johanan son of Kareah, all the army officers, and all the rest of the people did not obey the Lord’s command to stay in the land. |
| (0.18) | Jer 44:3 |
| This happened because of the wickedness the people living there did. 1 They made me angry 2 by worshiping and offering sacrifice to 3 other gods whom neither they nor you nor your ancestors 4 previously knew. 5 |
| (0.18) | Jer 44:10 |
| To this day your people 1 have shown no contrition! They have not revered me nor followed the laws and statutes I commanded 2 you and your ancestors.’ |
| (0.18) | Jer 46:18 |
| I the King, whose name is the Lord who rules over all, 1 swear this: I swear as surely as I live that 2 a conqueror is coming. He will be as imposing as Mount Tabor is among the mountains, as Mount Carmel is against the backdrop of the sea. 3 |
| (0.18) | Jer 49:1 |
| The Lord spoke about the Ammonites. 1 “Do you think there are not any people of the nation of Israel remaining? Do you think there are not any of them remaining to reinherit their land? Is that why you people who worship the god Milcom 2 have taken possession of the territory of Gad and live in his cities? 3 |
