Discovery Box| (0.13) | Isa 30:14 |
| It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. 1 Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough 2 to scoop a hot coal from a fire 3 or to skim off water from a cistern.” 4 |
| (0.13) | Isa 33:20 |
| Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals! You 1 will see Jerusalem, 2 a peaceful settlement, a tent that stays put; 3 its stakes will never be pulled up; none of its ropes will snap in two. |
| (0.13) | Isa 42:24 |
| Who handed Jacob over to the robber? Who handed Israel over to the looters? 1 Was it not the Lord, against whom we sinned? They refused to follow his commands; they disobeyed his law. 2 |
| (0.13) | Isa 42:25 |
| So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation 1 of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; 2 it burned against them, but they did notice. 3 |
| (0.13) | Isa 44:8 |
| Don’t panic! Don’t be afraid! 1 Did I not tell you beforehand and decree it? You are my witnesses! Is there any God but me? There is no other sheltering rock; 2 I know of none. |
| (0.13) | Isa 47:6 |
| I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; 1 you even placed a very heavy burden on old people. 2 |
| (0.13) | Isa 54:9 |
| “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, 1 when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood 2 would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you. |
| (0.13) | Isa 55:1 |
| “Hey, 1 all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost! 2 |
| (0.13) | 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 |
| (0.13) | Isa 63:15 |
| Look down from heaven and take notice, from your holy, majestic palace! Where are your zeal 1 and power? Do not hold back your tender compassion! 2 |
| (0.13) | Isa 65:7 |
| for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” 1 says the Lord. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and offended 2 me on the hills, I will punish them in full measure.” 3 |
| (0.13) | Isa 66:4 |
| So I will choose severe punishment 1 for them; I will bring on them what they dread, because I called, and no one responded, I spoke and they did not listen. They did evil before me; 2 they chose to do what displeases me.” |
| (0.13) | Jer 2:25 |
| Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. 1 But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods 2 and want to pursue them!’ |
| (0.13) | Jer 5:5 |
| I will go to the leaders 1 and speak with them. Surely they know what the Lord demands. 2 Surely they know what their God requires of them.” 3 Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him. 4 |
| (0.13) | Jer 6:1 |
| “Run for safety, people of Benjamin! Get out of Jerusalem! 1 Sound the trumpet 2 in Tekoa! Light the signal fires at Beth Hakkerem! For disaster lurks 3 out of the north; it will bring great destruction. 4 |
| (0.13) | Jer 6:6 |
| All of this is because 1 the Lord who rules over all 2 has said: ‘Cut down the trees around Jerusalem and build up a siege ramp against its walls. 3 This is the city which is to be punished. 4 Nothing but oppression happens in it. 5 |
| (0.13) | Jer 6:15 |
| Are they ashamed because they have done such shameful things? No, they are not at all ashamed. They do not even know how to blush! So they will die, just like others have died. 1 They will be brought to ruin when I punish them,” says the Lord. |
| (0.13) | Jer 7:20 |
| So,” the Lord God 1 says, “my raging fury will be poured out on this land. 2 It will be poured out on human beings and animals, on trees and crops. 3 And it will burn like a fire which cannot be extinguished.” |
| (0.13) | Jer 8:12 |
| Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things? No, they are not at all ashamed! They do not even know how to blush! So they will die just like others have died. 1 They will be brought to ruin when I punish them, says the Lord. |
| (0.13) | Jer 9:12 |
| I said, 1 “Who is wise enough to understand why this has happened? 2 Who has a word from the Lord that can explain it? 3 Why does the land lie in ruins? Why is it as scorched as a desert through which no one travels?” |
