Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. The locks of your hair are like royal tapestries – the king is held captive in its tresses!

“These people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and melt in fear over Rezin and the son of Remaliah.

You have enlarged the nation; you give them great joy. They rejoice in your presence as harvesters rejoice; as warriors celebrate when they divide up the plunder.

Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.

The Lord is about to deliver me, and we will celebrate with music for the rest of our lives in the Lord’s temple.”

They will disappoint you, those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. Each strays off in his own direction, leaving no one to rescue you.”

“Go and tell Hananiah that the Lord says, ‘You have indeed broken the wooden yoke. But you have only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one!

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to grant their slaves their freedom.

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,

Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked, declares the sovereign Lord? Do I not prefer that he turn from his wicked conduct and live?

Consider Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade, and extremely tall; its top reached into the clouds.

Those who lived in its shade, its allies among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.

(2:1)The Lord sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

The Lord will then be king over all the earth. In that day the Lord will be seen as one with a single name.

Moreover, Judah will fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered up – gold, silver, and clothing in great abundance.

At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.