Discovery Box| (0.53) | Jer 2:13 |
| “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, 1 and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.” |
| (0.53) | 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 |
| (0.53) | 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.”’ |
| (0.53) | Jer 6:4 |
| They will say, 1 ‘Prepare to do battle 2 against it! Come on! Let’s attack it at noon!’ But later they will say, 3 ‘Oh, oh! Too bad! 4 The day is almost over and the shadows of evening are getting long. |
| (0.53) | Jer 6:10 |
| I answered, 1 “Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? 2 Their ears are so closed 3 that they cannot hear! Indeed, 4 what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all. 5 |
| (0.53) | Jer 7:27 |
| Then the Lord said to me, 1 “When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you. |
| (0.53) | 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 |
| (0.53) | Jer 11:11 |
| So I, the Lord, say this: 1 ‘I will soon bring disaster on them which they will not be able to escape! When they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them. |
| (0.53) | Jer 12:10 |
| Many foreign rulers 1 will ruin the land where I planted my people. 2 They will trample all over my chosen land. 3 They will turn my beautiful land into a desolate wasteland. |
| (0.53) | Jer 13:7 |
| So I went to Perath and dug up 1 the shorts from the place where I had buried them. I found 2 that they were ruined; they were good for nothing. |
| (0.53) | Jer 14:12 |
| Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. 1 Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.” 2 |
| (0.53) | Jer 16:11 |
| Then tell them that the Lord says, 1 ‘It is because your ancestors 2 rejected me and paid allegiance to 3 other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law. 4 |
| (0.53) | Jer 17:10 |
| I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. 1 I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done. |
| (0.53) | Jer 17:18 |
| May those who persecute me be disgraced. Do not let me be disgraced. May they be dismayed. Do not let me be dismayed. Bring days of disaster on them. Bring on them the destruction they deserve.” 1 |
| (0.53) | Jer 23:1 |
| The Lord says, 1 “The leaders of my people are sure to be judged. 2 They were supposed to watch over my people like shepherds watch over their sheep. But they are causing my people to be destroyed and scattered. 3 |
| (0.53) | Jer 23:10 |
| For the land is full of people unfaithful to him. 1 They live wicked lives and they misuse their power. 2 So the land is dried up 3 because it is under his curse. 4 The pastures in the wilderness are withered. |
| (0.53) | Jer 23:12 |
| So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them.” 1 The Lord affirms it! 2 |
| (0.53) | Jer 23:17 |
| They continually say 1 to those who reject what the Lord has said, 2 ‘Things will go well for you!’ 3 They say to all those who follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you!’ |
| (0.53) | Jer 24:2 |
| One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. 1 The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten. |
| (0.53) | Jer 24:7 |
| I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I 1 am the Lord. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly 2 return to me.’ |
