(0.90162152014652) | Jer 22:24 | <t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">8220;As surely as I am the living God, you, Jeconiah,<n id="2" /> king of Judah, son of Jehoiakim, will not be the earthly representative of my authority. Indeed, I will take that right away from you.<n id="3" /> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 23:14 | <p class="poetry">But I see the prophets of Jerusalem<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">doing something just as shocking.p> <p class="poetry">They are unfaithful to mep> <p class="poetry">and continually prophesy lies.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil,p> <p class="poetry">with the result that they do not stop their evildoing.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom,p> <p class="poetry">and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.<n id="4" />p> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 25:1 | <t /><p class="bodytext">In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah<n id="1" /> concerning all the people of Judah. (That was the same as the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon.)<n id="2" /> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 25:3 | 8220;For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah<n id="1" /> until now, the <sc>Lordsc> has been speaking to me. I told you over and over again<n id="2" /> what he said.<n id="3" /> But you would not listen. |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 25:12 | <p class="bodytext">8220;8216;But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation<n id="1" /> for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon<n id="2" /> an everlasting ruin.<n id="3" /> I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="4" /> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 26:8 | Jeremiah had just barely finished saying all the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded him to say to all the people. All at once some<n id="1" /> of the priests, the prophets, and the people grabbed him and shouted, 8220;You deserve to die!<n id="2" /> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 26:9 | How dare you claim the <sc>Lordsc>8217;s authority to prophesy such things! How dare you claim his authority to prophesy that this temple will become like Shiloh and that this city will become an uninhabited ruin!8221;<n id="1" /> Then all the people crowded around Jeremiah.p> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 26:20 | <p class="bodytext">Now there was another man<n id="1" /> who prophesied as the <sc>Lordsc>8217;s representative<n id="2" /> against this city and this land just as Jeremiah did. His name was Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim.<n id="3" /> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 28:1 | <t /><p class="bodytext">The following events occurred in that same year, early in the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah. To be more precise, it was the fifth month of the fourth year of his reign.<n id="1" /> The prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, spoke to Jeremiah<n id="2" /> in the <sc>Lordsc>8217;s temple in the presence of the priests and all the people.<n id="3" /> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 29:26 | 8220;The <sc>Lordsc> has made you priest in place of Jehoiada.<n id="1" /> He has put you in charge in the <sc>Lordsc>8217;s temple of controlling<n id="2" /> any lunatic<n id="3" /> who pretends to be a prophet.<n id="4" /> And it is your duty to put any such person in the stocks<n id="5" /> with an iron collar around his neck.<n id="6" /> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 30:21 | <p class="poetry">One of their own people will be their leader.p> <p class="poetry">Their ruler will come from their own number.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will invite him to approach me, and he will do so.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For no one would dare approach me on his own.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="4" />p> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 31:9 | <p class="poetry">They will come back shedding tears of contrition.p> <p class="poetry">I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will lead them besides streams of water,p> <p class="poetry">along smooth paths where they will never stumble.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will do this because I am Israel8217;s father;p> <p class="poetry">Ephraim<n id="3" /> is my firstborn son.8217;8221;p> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 31:12 | <p class="poetry">They will come and shout for joy on Mount Zion.p> <p class="poetry">They will be radiant with joy<n id="1" /> over the good things the <sc>Lordsc> provides,p> <p class="poetry">the grain, the fresh wine, the olive oil,p> <p class="poetry">the young sheep and calves he has given to them.p> <p class="poetry">They will be like a well-watered gardenp> <p class="poetry">and will not grow faint or weary any more.p> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 32:24 | Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city<n id="1" /> in order to capture it. War,<n id="2" /> starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians<n id="3" /> who are attacking it.<n id="4" /> <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="5" /> you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place.<n id="6" /> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 32:30 | This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me<n id="1" /> from their earliest history until now<n id="2" /> and because they<n id="3" /> have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done.<n id="4" /> I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="5" /> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 32:31 | This will happen because<n id="1" /> the people of this city have aroused my anger and my wrath since the time they built it until now.<n id="2" /> They have made me so angry that I am determined to remove<n id="3" /> it from my sight. |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 33:9 | All the nations will hear about all the good things which I will do to them. This city will bring me fame, honor, and praise before them for the joy that I bring it. The nations will tremble in awe at all the peace and prosperity that I will provide for it.8217;<n id="1" />p> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 33:12 | <p class="bodytext">8220;I, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all, say:<n id="1" /> 8216;This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep. |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 33:24 | 8220;You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven8217;t you? They are saying,<n id="1" /> 8216;The <sc>Lordsc> has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah<n id="2" /> that he chose.8217; So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation.<n id="3" /> |
(0.90162152014652) | Jer 34:1 | <t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah while King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon was attacking Jerusalem<n id="1" /> and the towns around it with a large army. This army consisted of troops from his own army and from the kingdoms and peoples of the lands under his dominion.<n id="2" /> |