Discovery Box| (0.24) | Jer 51:62 |
| Then say, ‘O Lord, you have announced that you will destroy this place so that no people or animals live in it any longer. Certainly it will lie desolate forever!’ |
| (0.24) | Jer 51:64 |
| Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments 1 I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.’” The prophecies of Jeremiah end here. 2 |
| (0.24) | Jer 52:1 |
| 1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem 2 for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal 3 daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. |
| (0.24) | Jer 52:11 |
| He had Zedekiah’s eyes put out and had him bound in chains. 1 Then the king of Babylon had him led off to Babylon and he was imprisoned there until the day he died. |
| (0.24) | Jer 52:15 |
| Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took into exile some of the poor, 1 the rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the craftsmen. |
| (0.24) | Jer 52:17 |
| The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the temple of the Lord, as well as the movable stands and the large bronze basin called the “The Sea.” 1 They took all the bronze to Babylon. |
| (0.24) | Jer 52:23 |
| There were ninety-six pomegranate-shaped ornaments on the sides; in all there were one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments over the latticework that went around it. |
| (0.24) | Lam 1:3 |
| ג (Gimel) Judah 1 has departed into exile under 2 affliction and harsh oppression. 3 She 4 lives among the nations; she has found no resting place. All who pursued her overtook her in 5 narrow straits. 6 |
| (0.24) | Lam 1:4 |
| ד (Dalet) The roads to Zion 1 mourn 2 because no one 3 travels to the festivals. 4 All her city gates 5 are deserted; 6 her priests groan. 7 Her virgins grieve; 8 she is in bitter anguish! 9 |
| (0.24) | Lam 1:8 |
| ח (Khet) Jerusalem committed terrible sin; 1 therefore she became an object of scorn. 2 All who admired 3 her have despised her 4 because they have seen her nakedness. 5 She groans aloud 6 and turns away in shame. 7 |
| (0.24) | Lam 1:10 |
| י (Yod) An enemy grabbed 1 all her valuables. 2 Indeed she watched in horror 3 as Gentiles 4 invaded her holy temple 5 – those whom you 6 had commanded: “They must not enter 7 your assembly place.” 8 |
| (0.24) | Lam 1:15 |
| ס (Samek) He rounded up 1 all my mighty ones; 2 The Lord 3 did this 4 in 5 my midst. He summoned an assembly 6 against me to shatter my young men. The Lord has stomped like grapes 7 the virgin daughter, Judah. 8 |
| (0.24) | Lam 1:16 |
| ע (Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes 1 flow with tears. 2 For there is no one in sight who can comfort me 3 or encourage me. 4 My children 5 are desolated 6 because an enemy has prevailed. |
| (0.24) | 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 |
| (0.24) | Lam 1:19 |
| ק (Qof) I called for my lovers, 1 but they had deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city. Truly they had 2 searched for food to 3 keep themselves 4 alive. 5 |
| (0.24) | Lam 2:2 |
| ב (Bet) The Lord 1 destroyed 2 mercilessly 3 all the homes of Jacob’s descendants. 4 In his anger he tore down the fortified cities 5 of Daughter Judah. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its rulers. 6 |
| (0.24) | 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 |
| (0.24) | Lam 2:20 |
| ר (Resh) Look, O Lord! Consider! 1 Whom have you ever afflicted 2 like this? Should women eat their offspring, 3 their healthy infants? 4 Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s 5 sanctuary? |
| (0.24) | Lam 4:8 |
| ח (Khet) Now their appearance 1 is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark. |
| (0.24) | Lam 4:13 |
| מ (Mem) But it happened 1 due to the sins of her prophets 2 and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous. |
