Discovery Box| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 28:4 |
| I will also bring back to this place Jehoiakim’s son King Jeconiah of Judah and all the exiles who were taken to Babylon.’ Indeed, the <sc>Lordsc> affirms,<n id="1" /> ‘I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon.’”p> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 28:6 |
| The prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the <sc>Lordsc> do all this! May the <sc>Lordsc> make your prophecy come true! May he bring back to this place from Babylon all the valuable articles taken from the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple and the people who were carried into exile. |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 28:15 |
| Then the prophet Jeremiah told the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The <sc>Lordsc> did not send you! You are making these people trust in a lie!<n id="1" /> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 29:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">The prophet Jeremiah sent a letter to the exiles Nebuchadnezzar had carried off from Jerusalem<n id="1" /> to Babylon. It was addressed to the elders who were left among the exiles, to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the other people who were exiled in Babylon.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 29:10 |
| <p class="bodytext">“For the <sc>Lordsc> says, ‘Only when the seventy years of Babylonian rule<n id="1" /> are over will I again take up consideration for you.<n id="2" /> Then I will fulfill my gracious promise to you and restore<n id="3" /> you to your homeland.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 29:14 |
| I will make myself available to you,’<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> ‘Then I will reverse your plight<n id="3" /> and will regather you from all the nations and all the places where I have exiled you,’ says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="4" /> ‘I will bring you back to the place from which I exiled you.’p> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 29:19 |
| For they have not paid attention to what I said to them through my servants the prophets whom I sent to them over and over again,’<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" /> ‘And you exiles<n id="3" /> have not paid any attention to them either,’ says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 29:21 |
| <p class="bodytext">“The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="1" /> also has something to say about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you and claiming my authority to do so.<n id="2" /> ‘I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and he will execute them before your very eyes. |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 29:25 |
| that the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="1" /> has a message for him.<n id="2" /> Tell him,<n id="3" /> ‘On your own initiative<n id="4" /> you sent a letter<n id="5" /> to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah<n id="6" /> and to all the other priests and to all the people in Jerusalem.<n id="7" /> In your letter you said to Zephaniah,<n id="8" /> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 29:26 |
| “The <sc>Lordsc> has made you priest in place of Jehoiada.<n id="1" /> He has put you in charge in the <sc>Lordsc>’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" /> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 29:31 |
| “Send a message to all the exiles in Babylon. Tell them, ‘The <sc>Lordsc> has spoken about Shemaiah the Nehelamite. “Shemaiah has spoken to you as a prophet even though I did not send him. He is making you trust in a lie.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 30:3 |
| For I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm<n id="1" /> that the time will come when I will reverse the plight<n id="2" /> of my people, Israel and Judah,’ says the <sc>Lordsc>. ‘I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors<n id="3" /> and they will take possession of it once again.’”<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 30:10 |
| <p class="poetry">So I, the <sc>Lordsc>, tell you not to be afraid,p> <p class="poetry">you descendants of Jacob, my servants.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not be terrified, people of Israel.p> <p class="poetry">For I will rescue you and your descendantsp> <p class="poetry">from a faraway land where you are captives.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The descendants of Jacob will return to their land and enjoy peace.p> <p class="poetry">They will be secure and no one will terrify them.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.3292899408284) | 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 Israel’s father;p> <p class="poetry">Ephraim<n id="3" /> is my firstborn son.’”p> |
| (0.3292899408284) | 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> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 32:12 |
| I took both copies of the deed of purchase<n id="1" /> and gave them to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah. I gave them to him in the presence<n id="2" /> of my cousin<n id="3" /> Hanamel, the witnesses who had signed the deed of purchase, and all the Judeans who were housed in the courtyard of the guardhouse. |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 32:36 |
| <p class="bodytext">“You and your people<n id="1" /> are right in saying, ‘War,<n id="2" /> starvation, and disease are sure to make this city fall into the hands of the king of Babylon.’<n id="3" /> But now I, the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel, have something further to say about this city:<n id="4" /> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 32:42 |
| <p class="bodytext">“For I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> ‘I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 33:4 |
| For I, the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel, have something more to say about the houses in this city and the royal buildings which have been torn down for defenses against the siege ramps and military incursions of the Babylonians:<n id="1" /> |
| (0.3292899408284) | Jer 33:26 |
| Just as surely as I have done this, so surely will I never reject the descendants of Jacob. Nor will I ever refuse to choose one of my servant David’s descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed,<n id="1" /> I will restore them<n id="2" /> and show mercy to them.”p> |
