Discovery Box| (0.55) | Jer 6:17 |
| The Lord said, 1 “I appointed prophets as watchmen to warn you, 2 saying: ‘Pay attention to the warning sound of the trumpet!’” 3 But they said, “We will not pay attention!” |
| (0.55) | 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. |
| (0.55) | 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! |
| (0.55) | Jer 7:3 |
| The Lord God of Israel who rules over all 1 says: Change the way you have been living and do what is right. 2 If you do, I will allow you to continue to live in this land. 3 |
| (0.55) | Jer 7:12 |
| So, go to the place in Shiloh where I allowed myself to be worshiped 1 in the early days. See what I did to it 2 because of the wicked things my people Israel did. |
| (0.55) | Jer 7:30 |
| The Lord says, “I have rejected them because 1 the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. 2 They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple 3 which I have claimed for my own 4 and have defiled it. |
| (0.55) | Jer 7:33 |
| Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. 1 There will not be any survivors to scare them away. |
| (0.55) | Jer 8:3 |
| However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,” 1 says the Lord who rules over all. 2 |
| (0.55) | Jer 8:7 |
| Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. 1 The turtledove, swallow, and crane 2 recognize 3 the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to 4 what I, the Lord, require of them. 5 |
| (0.55) | Jer 8:8 |
| How can you say, “We are wise! We have the law of the Lord”? The truth is, 1 those who teach it 2 have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean. 3 |
| (0.55) | Jer 8:9 |
| Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. 1 Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom do they really have? |
| (0.55) | Jer 9:17 |
| The Lord who rules over all 1 told me to say to this people, 2 “Take note of what I say. 3 Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!” 4 |
| (0.55) | Jer 9:18 |
| I said, “Indeed, 1 let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water. |
| (0.55) | Jer 9:19 |
| For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion. They will wail, 1 ‘We are utterly ruined! 2 We are completely disgraced! For our houses have been torn down and we must leave our land.’” 3 |
| (0.55) | Jer 9:20 |
| I said, 1 “So now, 2 you wailing women, hear what the Lord says. 3 Open your ears to the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters this mournful song, and each of you teach your neighbor 4 this lament. |
| (0.55) | Jer 10:2 |
| The Lord says, “Do not start following pagan religious practices. 1 Do not be in awe of signs that occur 2 in the sky even though the nations hold them in awe. |
| (0.55) | Jer 10:10 |
| The Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury. |
| (0.55) | Jer 10:14 |
| All these idolaters 1 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. 2 There is no breath in any of those idols. 3 |
| (0.55) | Jer 11:21 |
| Then the Lord told me about 1 some men from Anathoth 2 who were threatening to kill me. 3 They had threatened, 4 “Stop prophesying in the name of the Lord or we will kill you!” 5 |
| (0.55) | Jer 11:22 |
| So the Lord who rules over all 1 said, “I will surely 2 punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. 3 Their sons and daughters will die of starvation. |
