Here’s how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.

Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?

Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

The noise of battle can be heard in the land of Babylonia. There is the sound of great destruction.

you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.

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Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

So he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him?

So do not throw away your confidence, because it has great reward.

Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

and they said to them, “May the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the opinion of Pharaoh and his servants, so that you have given them an excuse to kill us!”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for compelled by my strong hand he will release them, and by my strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”

And you didn’t stop there, O Lord God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Lord God?

Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.

For the dedication of this temple of God they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

Then I considered all the skillful work that is done: Surely it is nothing more than competition between one person and another. This also is profitless – like chasing the wind.

I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain!’ I am the Lord, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements.