Discovery Box| (0.28) | Jer 51:35 |
| The person who lives in Zion says, “May Babylon pay for the violence done to me and to my relatives.” Jerusalem says, “May those living in Babylonia pay for the bloodshed of my people.” 1 |
| (0.28) | 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 |
| (0.28) | 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 |
| (0.28) | 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. |
| (0.28) | 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. |
| (0.28) | 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. |
| (0.28) | Jer 52:22 |
| The bronze top of one pillar was about seven and one-half feet 1 high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate-shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its pomegranate-shaped ornaments was like it. |
| (0.28) | Jer 52:30 |
| in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, 1 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4,600 people went into exile. |
| (0.28) | Lam 1:1 |
| א (Alef) 1 2 Alas! 3 The city once full of people 4 now sits all alone! 5 The prominent 6 lady among the nations has become a widow! 7 The princess 8 who once ruled the provinces 9 has become |
| (0.28) | 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 |
| (0.28) | 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 |
| (0.28) | 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!” |
| (0.28) | 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. |
| (0.28) | Lam 2:1 |
| א (Alef) Alas! 1 The Lord 2 has covered Daughter Zion 3 with his anger. 4 He has thrown down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he did not protect 5 his temple 6 when he displayed his anger. 7 |
| (0.28) | Lam 2:10 |
| י (Yod) The elders of Daughter Zion sit 1 on the ground in silence. 2 They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. 3 Jerusalem’s young women 4 stare down at the ground. 5 |
| (0.28) | Lam 2:11 |
| כ (Kaf) My eyes are worn out 1 from weeping; 2 my stomach is in knots. 3 My heart 4 is poured out on the ground due to the destruction 5 of my helpless people; 6 children and infants faint in the town squares. |
| (0.28) | Lam 2:18 |
| צ (Tsade) Cry out 1 from your heart 2 to the Lord, 3 O wall of Daughter Zion! 4 Make your tears flow like a river all day and all night long! 5 Do not rest; do not let your tears 6 stop! |
| (0.28) | Lam 4:4 |
| ד (Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, 1 but no one gives them even a morsel. 2 |
| (0.28) | Lam 4:20 |
| ר (Resh) Our very life breath – the Lord’s anointed king 1 – was caught in their traps, 2 of whom we thought, 3 “Under his protection 4 we will survive among the nations.” |
| (0.28) | Eze 1:1 |
| In the thirtieth year, 1 on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles 2 at the Kebar River, 3 the heavens opened 4 and I saw a divine vision. 5 |
