From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”

I, I am the one who blots out your rebellious deeds for my sake; your sins I do not remember.

Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned! I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end.

But he lifted up our illnesses, he carried our pain; even though we thought he was being punished, attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done.

He was wounded because of our rebellious deeds, crushed because of our sins; he endured punishment that made us well; because of his wounds we have been healed.

Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done. “My servant will acquit many, for he carried their sins.

I looked, but there was no one to help; I was shocked because there was no one offering support. So my right arm accomplished deliverance; my raging anger drove me on.

But they rebelled and offended his holy Spirit, so he turned into an enemy and fought against them.

“Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?

But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,’” says the Lord.

He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ The Lord says, ‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant of David. “‘He will do what is just and right in the land.

King Zedekiah said to them, “Very well, you can do what you want with him. For I cannot do anything to stop you.”

“Moab has vaunted itself against me. So make him drunk with the wine of my wrath until he splashes around in his own vomit, until others treat him as a laughingstock.

So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord.

A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear.

He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”

They say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; the city is a cooking pot and we are the meat in it.’