Discovery Box| (0.18) | Jer 2:17 |
| You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, 1 by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path. 2 |
| (0.18) | Jer 2:21 |
| I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes? 1 |
| (0.18) | Jer 2:22 |
| You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,” 1 says the Lord God. 2 |
| (0.18) | Jer 2:26 |
| Just as a thief has to suffer dishonor when he is caught, so the people of Israel 1 will suffer dishonor for what they have done. 2 So will their kings and officials, their priests and their prophets. |
| (0.18) | Jer 2:33 |
| “My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! 1 Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two! 2 |
| (0.18) | Jer 2:36 |
| Why do you constantly go about changing your political allegiances? 1 You will get no help from Egypt just as you got no help from Assyria. 2 |
| (0.18) | Jer 3:7 |
| Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. 1 But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did. 2 |
| (0.18) | Jer 3:20 |
| But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, 1 like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” 2 says the Lord. |
| (0.18) | Jer 3:21 |
| “A noise is heard on the hilltops. It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods. Indeed they have followed sinful ways; 1 they have forgotten to be true to the Lord their God. 2 |
| (0.18) | Jer 3:24 |
| From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal, has taken away 1 all that our ancestors 2 worked for. It has taken away our flocks and our herds, and even our sons and daughters. |
| (0.18) | Jer 4:11 |
| “At that time the people of Judah and Jerusalem 1 will be told, ‘A scorching wind will sweep down from the hilltops in the desert on 2 my dear people. 3 It will not be a gentle breeze for winnowing the grain and blowing away the chaff. 4 |
| (0.18) | Jer 4:13 |
| Look! The enemy is approaching like gathering clouds. 1 The roar of his chariots is like that of a whirlwind. 2 His horses move more swiftly than eagles.” I cry out, 3 “We are doomed, 4 for we will be destroyed!” |
| (0.18) | Jer 4:16 |
| They are saying, 1 ‘Announce to the surrounding nations, 2 “The enemy is coming!” 3 Proclaim this message 4 to Jerusalem: “Those who besiege cities 5 are coming from a distant land. They are ready to raise the battle cry against 6 the towns in Judah.”’ |
| (0.18) | Jer 4:28 |
| Because of this the land will mourn and the sky above will grow black. 1 For I have made my purpose known 2 and I will not relent or turn back from carrying it out.” 3 |
| (0.18) | Jer 5:10 |
| The Lord commanded the enemy, 1 “March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. 2 But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the Lord. 3 |
| (0.18) | Jer 6:8 |
| So 1 take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust 2 and make you desolate, a place where no one can live.” |
| (0.18) | Jer 6:21 |
| So, this is what the Lord says: ‘I will assuredly 1 make these people stumble to their doom. 2 Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction. 3 Friends and neighbors will die.’ |
| (0.18) | Jer 6:22 |
| “This is what the Lord says: ‘Beware! An army 1 is coming from a land in the north. A mighty nation is stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth. |
| (0.18) | Jer 6:24 |
| The people cry out, 1 “We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! 2 Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby! |
| (0.18) | Jer 7:2 |
| “Stand in the gate of the Lord’s temple and proclaim 1 this message: ‘Listen, all you people of Judah who have passed through these gates to worship the Lord. 2 Hear what the Lord has to say. |
