Discovery Box| (0.63) | Jer 50:31 |
| “Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,” 1 says the Lord God who rules over all. 2 “Indeed, 3 your day of reckoning 4 has come, the time when I will punish you. 5 |
| (0.63) | Jer 50:32 |
| You will stumble and fall, you proud city; no one will help you get up. I will set fire to your towns; it will burn up everything that surrounds you.” 1 |
| (0.63) | Jer 50:33 |
| The Lord who rules over all 1 says, “The people of Israel are oppressed. So too are the people of Judah. 2 All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners. They refuse to set them free. |
| (0.63) | Jer 50:39 |
| Therefore desert creatures and jackals will live there. Ostriches 1 will dwell in it too. 2 But no people will ever live there again. No one will dwell there for all time to come. 3 |
| (0.63) | Jer 50:43 |
| The king of Babylon will become paralyzed with fear 1 when he hears news of their coming. 2 Anguish will grip him, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby. 3 |
| (0.63) | Jer 51:13 |
| “You who live along the rivers of Babylon, 1 the time of your end has come. You who are rich in plundered treasure, it is time for your lives to be cut off. 2 |
| (0.63) | 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. |
| (0.63) | 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 |
| (0.63) | 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 |
| (0.63) | Jer 51:36 |
| Therefore the Lord says, “I will stand up for your cause. I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done to you. 1 I will dry up their sea. I will make their springs run dry. 2 |
| (0.63) | Jer 51:44 |
| I will punish the god Bel in Babylon. I will make him spit out what he has swallowed. The nations will not come streaming to him any longer. Indeed, the walls of Babylon will fall.” 1 |
| (0.63) | Jer 51:47 |
| “So the time will certainly come 1 when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her whole land will be put to shame. All her mortally wounded will collapse in her midst. 2 |
| (0.63) | 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 |
| (0.63) | 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. |
| (0.63) | 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. |
| (0.63) | 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. |
| (0.63) | 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. |
| (0.63) | Lam 1:2 |
| ב (Bet) She weeps bitterly at night; tears stream down her cheeks. 1 She has no one to comfort her among all her lovers. 2 All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. |
| (0.63) | Lam 1:6 |
| ו (Vav) All of Daughter Zion’s 1 splendor 2 has departed. 3 Her leaders became like deer; they found no pasture, so they were too exhausted to escape 4 from the hunter. 5 |
| (0.63) | 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!” |
