Discovery Box| (0.35) | Jer 20:7 |
| Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. 1 Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me. |
| (0.35) | Jer 20:12 |
| O Lord who rules over all, 1 you test and prove the righteous. You see into people’s hearts and minds. 2 Pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause. |
| (0.35) | Jer 21:2 |
| “Please ask the Lord to come and help us, 1 because King Nebuchadnezzar 2 of Babylon is attacking us. Maybe the Lord will perform one of his miracles as in times past and make him stop attacking us and leave.” 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 21:9 |
| Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians who are besieging it will live. They will escape with their lives. 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 21:13 |
| Listen, you 1 who sit enthroned above the valley on a rocky plateau. I am opposed to you,’ 2 says the Lord. 3 ‘You boast, “No one can swoop down on us. No one can penetrate into our places of refuge.” 4 |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:2 |
| Say: ‘Listen, O king of Judah who follows in David’s succession. 1 You, your officials, and your subjects who pass through the gates of this palace must listen to what the Lord says. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:7 |
| I will send men against it to destroy it 1 with their axes and hatchets. They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns and throw them into the fire. |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:10 |
| “‘Do not weep for the king who was killed. Do not grieve for him. But weep mournfully for the king who has gone into exile. For he will never return to see his native land again. 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:11 |
| “‘For the Lord has spoken about Shallum son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of Judah but was carried off into exile. He has said, “He will never return to this land. 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:13 |
| “‘Sure to be judged 1 is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. 2 He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor. |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:16 |
| He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ 1 The Lord says, ‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’ 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:17 |
| But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression. 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:22 |
| My judgment will carry off all your leaders like a storm wind! 1 Your allies will go into captivity. Then you will certainly 2 be disgraced and put to shame because of all the wickedness you have done. |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:26 |
| I will force you and your mother who gave you birth into exile. You will be exiled to 1 a country where neither of you were born, and you will both die there. |
| (0.35) | Jer 23:3 |
| Then I myself will regather those of my people 1 who are still alive from all the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their homeland. 2 They will greatly increase in number. |
| (0.35) | Jer 23:4 |
| I will install rulers 1 over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. 2 I, the Lord, promise it! 3 |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | Jer 24:3 |
| The Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “I see figs. The good ones look very good. But the bad ones look very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.” |
| (0.35) | Jer 24:6 |
| I will look after their welfare 1 and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land 2 and will not uproot them. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 25:1 |
| In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the Lord spoke to Jeremiah 1 concerning all the people of Judah. (That was the same as the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon.) 2 |
