Discovery Box| (0.25) | 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!” |
| (0.25) | Jer 7:31 |
| They have also built places of worship 1 in a place called Topheth 2 in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire. That is something I never commanded them to do! Indeed, it never even entered my mind to command such a thing! 3 |
| (0.25) | Jer 8:16 |
| The snorting of the enemy’s horses is already being heard in the city of Dan. The sound of the neighing of their stallions 1 causes the whole land to tremble with fear. They are coming to destroy the land and everything in it! They are coming to destroy 2 the cities and everyone who lives in them!” |
| (0.25) | Jer 9:10 |
| I said, 1 “I will weep and mourn 2 for the grasslands on the mountains, 3 I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.” |
| (0.25) | Jer 9:26 |
| That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. 1 I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord’s sight. 2 Moreover, none of the people of Israel 3 are circumcised when it comes to their hearts.” 4 |
| (0.25) | 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. |
| (0.25) | Jer 11:5 |
| Then I will keep the promise I swore on oath to your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.” 1 That is the very land that you still live in today.’” 2 And I responded, “Amen! Let it be so, 3 Lord!” |
| (0.25) | Jer 11:13 |
| This is in spite of the fact that 1 the people of Judah have as many gods as they have towns 2 and the citizens of Jerusalem have set up as many altars to sacrifice to that disgusting god, Baal, as they have streets in the city!’ 3 |
| (0.25) | Jer 13:16 |
| Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. 1 Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. 2 Do it before you stumble 3 into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. 4 Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile. 5 |
| (0.25) | Jer 14:22 |
| Do any of the worthless idols 1 of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? 2 So we put our hopes in you 3 because you alone do all this.” |
| (0.25) | Jer 18:11 |
| So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem 1 this: The Lord says, ‘I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you. 2 So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing. 3 Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.’ 4 |
| (0.25) | Jer 20:11 |
| But the Lord is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. 1 Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten. |
| (0.25) | Jer 22:3 |
| The Lord says, “Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those 1 who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. 2 Do not kill innocent people 3 in this land. |
| (0.25) | Jer 22:6 |
| “‘For the Lord says concerning the palace of the king of Judah, “This place looks like a veritable forest of Gilead to me. It is like the wooded heights of Lebanon in my eyes. But I swear that I will make it like a wilderness whose towns have all been deserted. 1 |
| (0.25) | Jer 23:5 |
| “I, the Lord, promise 1 that a new time will certainly come 2 when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, 3 a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding 4 and will do what is just and right in the land. 5 |
| (0.25) | Jer 23:9 |
| Here is what the Lord says concerning the false prophets: 2 My heart and my mind are deeply disturbed. I tremble all over. 3 I am like a drunk person, like a person who has had too much wine, 4 because of the way the Lord and his holy word are being mistreated. 5 |
| (0.25) | Jer 23:27 |
| How long will they go on plotting 1 to make my people forget who I am 2 through the dreams they tell one another? That is just as bad as what their ancestors 3 did when they forgot who I am by worshiping the god Baal. 4 |
| (0.25) | Jer 24:9 |
| I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. 1 That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them. 2 |
| (0.25) | Jer 25:15 |
| So 1 the Lord, the God of Israel, spoke to me in a vision. 2 “Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my wrath. 3 Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it. |
| (0.25) | Jer 25:18 |
| I made Jerusalem 1 and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. 2 I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object 3 of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. 4 Such is already becoming the case! 5 |
