Discovery Box| (0.29) | Jer 27:10 |
| Do not listen to them, 1 because their prophecies are lies. 2 Listening to them will only cause you 3 to be taken far away from your native land. I will drive you out of your country and you will die in exile. 4 |
| (0.29) | Jer 27:12 |
| I told King Zedekiah of Judah the same thing. I said, 1 “Submit 2 to the yoke of servitude to 3 the king of Babylon. Be subject to him and his people. Then you will continue to live. |
| (0.29) | Jer 27:13 |
| There is no reason why you and your people should die in war 1 or from starvation or disease! 2 That’s what the Lord says will happen to any nation 3 that will not be subject to the king of Babylon. |
| (0.29) | Jer 27:21 |
| Indeed, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all 1 has already spoken 2 about the valuable articles that are left in the Lord’s temple, in the royal palace of Judah, and in Jerusalem. |
| (0.29) | Jer 29:3 |
| He sent it with Elasah son of Shaphan 1 and Gemariah son of Hilkiah. 2 King Zedekiah of Judah had sent these men to Babylon to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. 3 The letter said: |
| (0.29) | 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.’ |
| (0.29) | Jer 29:10 |
| “For the Lord says, ‘Only when the seventy years of Babylonian rule 1 are over will I again take up consideration for you. 2 Then I will fulfill my gracious promise to you and restore 3 you to your homeland. 4 |
| (0.29) | Jer 29:17 |
| The Lord who rules over all 1 says, ‘I will bring war, 2 starvation, and disease on them. I will treat them like figs that are so rotten 3 they cannot be eaten. |
| (0.29) | Jer 30:14 |
| All your allies have abandoned you. 1 They no longer have any concern for you. For I have attacked you like an enemy would. I have chastened you cruelly. For your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much. 2 |
| (0.29) | Jer 30:15 |
| Why do you complain about your injuries, that your pain is incurable? I have done all this to you because your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much. |
| (0.29) | Jer 31:4 |
| I will rebuild you, my dear children Israel, 1 so that you will once again be built up. Once again you will take up the tambourine and join in the happy throng of dancers. 2 |
| (0.29) | Jer 31:15 |
| The Lord says, “A sound is heard in Ramah, 1 a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.” 2 |
| (0.29) | Jer 31:19 |
| For after we turned away from you we repented. After we came to our senses 1 we beat our breasts in sorrow. 2 We are ashamed and humiliated because of the disgraceful things we did previously.’ 3 |
| (0.29) | Jer 32:4 |
| King Zedekiah of Judah will not escape from the Babylonians. 1 He will certainly be handed over to the king of Babylon. He must answer personally to the king of Babylon and confront him face to face. 2 |
| (0.29) | Jer 32:5 |
| Zedekiah will be carried off to Babylon and will remain there until I have fully dealt with him. 1 I, the Lord, affirm it! 2 Even if you 3 continue to fight against the Babylonians, 4 you cannot win.’” |
| (0.29) | Jer 32:18 |
| You show unfailing love to thousands. 1 But you also punish children for the sins of their parents. 2 You are the great and powerful God who is known as the Lord who rules over all. 3 |
| (0.29) | Jer 32:25 |
| The city is sure to fall into the hands of the Babylonians. 1 Yet, in spite of this, 2 you, Lord God, 3 have said to me, “Buy that field with silver and have the transaction legally witnessed.”’” 4 |
| (0.29) | Jer 32:31 |
| This will happen because 1 the people of this city have aroused my anger and my wrath since the time they built it until now. 2 They have made me so angry that I am determined to remove 3 it from my sight. |
| (0.29) | Jer 32:39 |
| I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for 1 their own good and the good of the children who descend from them. |
| (0.29) | Jer 32:40 |
| I will make a lasting covenant 1 with them that I will never stop doing good to them. 2 I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that 3 they will never again turn 4 away from me. |
