Discovery Box| (0.11) | Jer 11:10 |
| They have gone back to the evil ways 1 of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to 2 other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah 3 have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors. |
| (0.11) | Jer 12:14 |
| “I, the Lord, also have something to say concerning 1 the wicked nations who surround my land 2 and have attacked and plundered 3 the land that I gave to my people as a permanent possession. 4 I say: ‘I will uproot the people of those nations from their lands and I will free the people of Judah who have been taken there. 5 |
| (0.11) | Jer 12:16 |
| But they must make sure you learn to follow the religious practices of my people. 1 Once they taught my people to swear their oaths using the name of the god Baal. 2 But then, they must swear oaths using my name, saying, “As surely as the Lord lives, I swear.” 3 If they do these things, 4 then they will be included among the people I call my own. 5 |
| (0.11) | Jer 13:17 |
| But if you will not pay attention to this warning, 1 I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride. I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears 2 because you, the Lord’s flock, 3 will be carried 4 into exile.” |
| (0.11) | Jer 13:21 |
| What will you say 1 when the Lord 2 appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? 3 Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby. 4 |
| (0.11) | 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 |
| (0.11) | Jer 14:9 |
| Why should you be like someone who is helpless, 1 like a champion 2 who cannot save anyone? You are indeed with us, 3 and we belong to you. 4 Do not abandon us!” |
| (0.11) | Jer 14:13 |
| Then I said, “Oh, Lord God, 1 look! 2 The prophets are telling them that you said, 3 ‘You will not experience war or suffer famine. 4 I will give you lasting peace and prosperity in this land.’” 5 |
| (0.11) | Jer 15:10 |
| I said, 1 “Oh, mother, how I regret 2 that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. 3 I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.” 4 |
| (0.11) | Jer 16:15 |
| But in that time they will affirm them with ‘I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.’ At that time I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors.” 1 |
| (0.11) | Jer 17:11 |
| The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. 1 Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. 2 At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.” 3 |
| (0.11) | Jer 17:13 |
| You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. 1 All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you 2 will be consigned to the nether world. 3 For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life. 4 |
| (0.11) | Jer 17:24 |
| The Lord says, 1 ‘You must make sure to obey me. You must not bring any loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day. You must set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not do any work on that day. |
| (0.11) | Jer 17:25 |
| If you do this, 1 then the kings and princes who follow in David’s succession 2 and ride in chariots or on horses will continue to enter through these gates, as well as their officials and the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem. 3 This city will always be filled with people. 4 |
| (0.11) | Jer 18:15 |
| Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. 1 They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level. 2 |
| (0.11) | Jer 19:15 |
| “The Lord God of Israel who rules over all 1 says, ‘I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it 2 all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused 3 to pay any attention to what I have said!’” |
| (0.11) | Jer 22:21 |
| While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. 1 But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.” That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. 2 Indeed, you have never paid attention to me. |
| (0.11) | Jer 23:17 |
| They continually say 1 to those who reject what the Lord has said, 2 ‘Things will go well for you!’ 3 They say to all those who follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you!’ |
| (0.11) | Jer 23:36 |
| You must no longer say that the Lord’s message is burdensome. 1 For what is ‘burdensome’ 2 really pertains to what a person himself says. 3 You are misrepresenting 4 the words of our God, the living God, the Lord who rules over all. 5 |
| (0.11) | Jer 26:8 |
| Jeremiah had just barely finished saying all the Lord had commanded him to say to all the people. All at once some 1 of the priests, the prophets, and the people grabbed him and shouted, “You deserve to die! 2 |
