Discovery Box| (1.00) | Jer 31:18 |
| I have indeed 1 heard the people of Israel 2 say mournfully, ‘We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. 3 You disciplined us and we learned from it. 4 Let us come back to you and we will do so, 5 for you are the Lord our God. |
| (1.00) | Jer 31:23 |
| The Lord God of Israel who rules over all 1 says, “I will restore the people of Judah to their land and to their towns. When I do, they will again say 2 of Jerusalem, 3 ‘May the Lord bless you, you holy mountain, the place where righteousness dwells.’ 4 |
| (1.00) | Jer 31:35 |
| The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all. 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:1 |
| In the tenth year that Zedekiah was ruling over Judah the Lord spoke to Jeremiah. 1 That was the same as the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:6 |
| So now, Jeremiah said, “The Lord told me, 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:8 |
| Now it happened just as the Lord had said! My cousin Hanamel 1 came to me in the courtyard of the guardhouse. He said to me, ‘Buy my field which is at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. Buy it for yourself since you are entitled as my closest relative to take possession of it for yourself.’ When this happened, I recognized that the Lord had indeed spoken to me. |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:19 |
| You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. 1 You see everything people do. 2 You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do. 3 |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:20 |
| You did miracles and amazing deeds in the land of Egypt which have had lasting effect. By this means you gained both in Israel and among humankind a renown that lasts to this day. 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:22 |
| You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors. 1 You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:24 |
| Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city 1 in order to capture it. War, 2 starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians 3 who are attacking it. 4 Lord, 5 you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place. 6 |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:26 |
| The Lord answered Jeremiah. 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:27 |
| “I am the Lord, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me. 1 |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:29 |
| The Babylonian soldiers 1 that are attacking this city will break into it and set it on fire. They will burn it down along with the houses where people have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods on their rooftops. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:30 |
| This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me 1 from their earliest history until now 2 and because they 3 have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done. 4 I, the Lord, affirm it! 5 |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:34 |
| They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own 1 and defiled it. |
| (1.00) | Jer 32:35 |
| They built places of worship for the god Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they could sacrifice their sons and daughters to the god Molech. 1 Such a disgusting practice was not something I commanded them to do! It never even entered my mind to command them to do such a thing! So Judah is certainly liable for punishment.’ 2 |
| (1.00) | 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. |
| (1.00) | 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. |
| (1.00) | Jer 33:1 |
| The Lord spoke 1 to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse. 2 |
| (1.00) | Jer 33:2 |
| “I, the Lord, do these things. I, the Lord, form the plan to bring them about. 1 I am known as the Lord. I say to you, |
