She asked Elijah, “Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”

All these gold and silver vessels totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought them all along when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Who is a wise person? Who knows the solution to a problem? A person’s wisdom brightens his appearance, and softens his harsh countenance.

Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.

For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there.

Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.

If you do not obey me, then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.’”

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after Jehoiakim had burned the scroll containing what Jeremiah had spoken and Baruch had written down.

Come from far away and attack Babylonia! Open up the places where she stores her grain! Pile her up in ruins! Destroy her completely! Do not leave anyone alive!

I listened to his voice, and as I did so I fell into a trance-like sleep with my face to the ground.

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!

and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan – a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

Do not neglect the spiritual gift you have, given to you and confirmed by prophetic words when the elders laid hands on you.

I charge you before God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who made his good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Now the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, and their faces looked like men’s faces.

So these officials said to the king, “This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying. This man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them.”