Discovery Box| (0.35) | Isa 59:10 |
| We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; 1 we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men. 2 |
| (0.35) | Isa 64:5 |
| You assist 1 those who delight in doing what is right, 2 who observe your commandments. 3 Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved? 4 |
| (0.35) | Jer 1:5 |
| “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb 1 I chose you. 2 Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.” |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | Jer 13:20 |
| Then I said, 1 “Look up, Jerusalem, 2 and see the enemy 3 that is coming from the north. Where now is the flock of people that were entrusted to your care? 4 Where now are the ‘sheep’ that you take such pride in? 5 |
| (0.35) | Jer 17:6 |
| They will be like a shrub 1 in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live. |
| (0.35) | Jer 20:2 |
| When he heard Jeremiah’s prophecy, he had the prophet flogged. 1 Then he put him in the stocks 2 which were at the Upper Gate of Benjamin in the Lord’s temple. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 22:21 |
| While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. 1 But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.” That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. 2 Indeed, you have never paid attention to me. |
| (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 23:1 |
| 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 |
| (0.35) | Jer 31:22 |
| How long will you vacillate, 1 you who were once like an unfaithful daughter? 2 For I, the Lord, promise 3 to bring about something new 4 on the earth, something as unique as a woman protecting a man!’” 5 |
| (0.35) | Jer 31:36 |
| The Lord affirms, 1 “The descendants of Israel will not cease forever to be a nation in my sight. That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lights were to cease to operate before me.” 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 32:2 |
| Now at that time, 1 the armies of the king of Babylon were besieging Jerusalem. 2 The prophet Jeremiah was confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse 3 attached to the royal palace of Judah. |
| (0.35) | Jer 36:21 |
| The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He went and got it from the room of Elishama, the royal secretary. Then he himself 1 read it to the king and all the officials who were standing around him. |
| (0.35) | Jer 37:15 |
| The officials were very angry 1 at Jeremiah. They had him flogged and put in prison in the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary, which they had converted into a place for confining prisoners. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 39:9 |
| Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, 1 took captive the rest of the people who were left in the city. He carried them off to Babylon along with the people who had deserted to him. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 41:18 |
| They were afraid of what the Babylonians might do 1 because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the country. |
| (0.35) | Jer 44:1 |
| The Lord spoke to Jeremiah concerning 1 all the Judeans who were living in the land of Egypt, those in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and in the region of southern Egypt. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 44:5 |
| But the people of Jerusalem and Judah 1 would not listen or pay any attention. They would not stop the wickedness they were doing nor quit sacrificing to other gods. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 44:6 |
| So my anger and my wrath were poured out and burned like a fire through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. That is why they have become the desolate ruins that they are today.’ |
