Discovery Box| (0.48) | Jer 6:10 |
| I answered, 1 “Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? 2 Their ears are so closed 3 that they cannot hear! Indeed, 4 what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all. 5 |
| (0.48) | Jer 7:12 |
| So, go to the place in Shiloh where I allowed myself to be worshiped 1 in the early days. See what I did to it 2 because of the wicked things my people Israel did. |
| (0.48) | Jer 7:29 |
| So, mourn, 1 you people of this nation. 2 Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the hilltops. For the Lord has decided to reject 3 and forsake this generation that has provoked his wrath!’” 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 7:30 |
| The Lord says, “I have rejected them because 1 the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. 2 They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple 3 which I have claimed for my own 4 and have defiled it. |
| (0.48) | Jer 8:7 |
| Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. 1 The turtledove, swallow, and crane 2 recognize 3 the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to 4 what I, the Lord, require of them. 5 |
| (0.48) | Jer 9:17 |
| The Lord who rules over all 1 told me to say to this people, 2 “Take note of what I say. 3 Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!” 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 10:18 |
| For the Lord says, “I will now throw out those who live in this land. I will bring so much trouble on them that they will actually feel it.” 1 |
| (0.48) | Jer 10:22 |
| Listen! News is coming even now. 1 The rumble of a great army is heard approaching 2 from a land in the north. 3 It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live. |
| (0.48) | Jer 12:13 |
| My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. 1 They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests 2 because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger. 3 |
| (0.48) | 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 |
| (0.48) | Jer 14:21 |
| For the honor of your name, 1 do not treat Jerusalem 2 with contempt. Do not treat with disdain the place where your glorious throne sits. 3 Be mindful of your covenant with us. Do not break it! 4 |
| (0.48) | 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 |
| (0.48) | Jer 17:1 |
| 1 The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron chisel on their stone-hard 2 hearts. It is inscribed with a diamond 3 point on the horns of their altars. 4 |
| (0.48) | Jer 17:3 |
| and on the mountains and in the fields. 1 I will give your wealth and all your treasures away as plunder. I will give it away as the price 2 for the sins you have committed throughout your land. |
| (0.48) | 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. |
| (0.48) | Jer 18:16 |
| So their land will become an object of horror. 1 People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision. 2 |
| (0.48) | 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. |
| (0.48) | Jer 21:9 |
| Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians who are besieging it will live. They will escape with their lives. 1 |
| (0.48) | Jer 22:16 |
| He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ 1 The Lord says, ‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’ 2 |
| (0.48) | Jer 23:4 |
| I will install rulers 1 over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. 2 I, the Lord, promise it! 3 |
