Discovery Box| (0.31) | Jer 51:7 |
| Babylonia had been a gold cup in the Lord’s hand. She had made the whole world drunk. The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath. 1 So they have all gone mad. 2 |
| (0.31) | Jer 51:10 |
| The exiles from Judah will say, 1 ‘The Lord has brought about a great deliverance for us! 2 Come on, let’s go and proclaim in Zion what the Lord our God has done!’ |
| (0.31) | Jer 51:17 |
| All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols. |
| (0.31) | Jer 51:26 |
| No one will use any of your stones as a cornerstone. No one will use any of them in the foundation of his house. For you will lie desolate forever,” 1 says the Lord. 2 |
| (0.31) | Jer 51:29 |
| The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. 1 For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia 2 a wasteland where no one lives. 3 |
| (0.31) | Jer 51:33 |
| For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘Fair Babylon 1 will be like a threshing floor which has been trampled flat for harvest. The time for her to be cut down and harvested will come very soon.’ 2 |
| (0.31) | Jer 51:34 |
| “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out.” 1 |
| (0.31) | Jer 51:39 |
| When their appetites are all stirred up, 1 I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, 2 they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up,” 3 says the Lord. 4 |
| (0.31) | Jer 51:43 |
| The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them. 1 |
| (0.31) | Jer 51:55 |
| For the Lord is ready to destroy Babylon, and put an end to her loud noise. Their waves 1 will roar like turbulent 2 waters. They will make a deafening noise. 3 |
| (0.31) | Jer 51:59 |
| This is the order Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went to King Zedekiah of Judah in Babylon during the fourth year of his reign. 1 (Seraiah was a quartermaster.) 2 |
| (0.31) | Jer 52:3 |
| What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger when he drove them out of his sight. 1 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. |
| (0.31) | Lam 1:11 |
| כ (Kaf) All her people groaned as they searched for a morsel of bread. 1 They exchanged 2 their valuables 3 for 4 just enough food to stay alive. 5 “Look, O Lord! Consider 6 that I have become worthless!” |
| (0.31) | Lam 1:13 |
| מ (Mem) He sent down fire 1 into my bones, and it overcame 2 them. He spread out a trapper’s net 3 for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long. |
| (0.31) | Lam 1:17 |
| פ (Pe) Zion spread out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The Lord has issued a decree against Jacob; his neighbors 1 have become his enemies. Jerusalem has become like filthy garbage 2 in their midst. 3 |
| (0.31) | Lam 2:3 |
| ג (Gimel) In fierce anger 1 he destroyed 2 the whole army 3 of Israel. He withdrew his right hand 4 as the enemy attacked. 5 He was like a raging fire in the land of Jacob; 6 it consumed everything around it. 7 |
| (0.31) | Lam 2:7 |
| ז (Zayin) The Lord 1 rejected 2 his altar and abhorred his temple. 3 He handed over to the enemy 4 her palace walls; the enemy 5 shouted 6 in the Lord’s temple as if it were a feast day. 7 |
| (0.31) | Lam 2:12 |
| ל (Lamed) Children 1 say to their mothers, 2 “Where are food and drink?” 3 They faint 4 like a wounded warrior in the city squares. They die slowly 5 in their mothers’ arms. 6 |
| (0.31) | Lam 2:16 |
| פ (Pe) All your enemies gloated over you. 1 They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said, “We have destroyed 2 her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!” 3 |
| (0.31) | Lam 2:18 |
| צ (Tsade) Cry out 1 from your heart 2 to the Lord, 3 O wall of Daughter Zion! 4 Make your tears flow like a river all day and all night long! 5 Do not rest; do not let your tears 6 stop! |
