Discovery Box| (0.15) | Jer 5:1 |
| The Lord said, 1 “Go up and down 2 through the streets of Jerusalem. 3 Look around and see for yourselves. Search through its public squares. See if any of you can find a single person who deals honestly and tries to be truthful. 4 If you can, 5 then I will not punish this city. 6 |
| (0.15) | Jer 6:16 |
| The Lord said to his people: 1 “You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. 2 Ask where the old, reliable paths 3 are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing 4 and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls.” But they said, “We will not follow it!” |
| (0.15) | Jer 6:19 |
| Hear this, you peoples of the earth: 1 ‘Take note! 2 I am about to bring disaster on these people. It will come as punishment for their scheming. 3 For they have paid no attention to what I have said, 4 and they have rejected my law. |
| (0.15) | 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. |
| (0.15) | Jer 8:10 |
| 1 So I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. |
| (0.15) | Jer 9:3 |
| The Lord says, 1 “These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. 2 They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. 3 Indeed, they do one evil thing after another 4 and do not pay attention to me. 5 |
| (0.15) | 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?” |
| (0.15) | Jer 10:20 |
| But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. 1 Our children are gone and are not coming back. 2 There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place. |
| (0.15) | Jer 10:25 |
| Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. 1 Vent it on the peoples 2 who do not worship you. 3 For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. 4 They have completely destroyed them 5 and left their homeland in utter ruin. |
| (0.15) | Jer 12:9 |
| The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas. 1 But other birds of prey are all around them. 2 Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts. Let them come and destroy these people I call my own. 3 |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | Jer 14:15 |
| I did not send those prophets, though they claim to be prophesying in my name. They may be saying, ‘No war or famine will happen in this land.’ But I, the Lord, say this about 1 them: ‘War and starvation will kill those prophets.’ 2 |
| (0.15) | Jer 14:18 |
| If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. 1 For both prophet and priest go about their own business in the land without having any real understanding.’” 2 |
| (0.15) | Jer 15:15 |
| I said, 1 “Lord, you know how I suffer. 2 Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake. |
| (0.15) | Jer 16:5 |
| “Moreover I, the Lord, tell you: 1 ‘Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor, 2 my love, and my compassion. I, the Lord, so affirm it! 3 |
| (0.15) | 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 |
| (0.15) | 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. |
| (0.15) | Jer 19:5 |
| They have built places here 1 for worship of the god Baal so that they could sacrifice their children as burnt offerings to him in the fire. Such sacrifices 2 are something I never commanded them to make! They are something I never told them to do! Indeed, such a thing never even entered my mind! |
| (0.15) | Jer 20:5 |
| I will hand over all the wealth of this city to their enemies. I will hand over to them all the fruits of the labor of the people of this city and all their prized possessions, as well as all the treasures of the kings of Judah. Their enemies will seize it all as plunder 1 and carry it off to Babylon. |
| (0.15) | 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. |
