Discovery Box| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 16:11 |
| Then tell them that the <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" /> ‘It is because your ancestors<n id="2" /> rejected me and paid allegiance to<n id="3" /> other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 17:4 |
| <p class="poetry">You will lose your hold on the land<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">which I gave to you as a permanent possession.p> <p class="poetry">I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about.p> <p class="poetry">For you have made my anger burn like a fire that will never be put out.”<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 18:6 |
| “I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> ‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay?<n id="2" /> In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’ |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 18:18 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">Then some people<n id="1" /> said, “Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah!<n id="2" /> There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word.<n id="3" /> Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him!<n id="4" /> Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”p> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 19:4 |
| I will do so because these people<n id="1" /> have rejected me and have defiled<n id="2" /> this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors<n id="3" /> nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 19:6 |
| So I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> “The time will soon come that people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Hinnom Valley. But they will call this valley<n id="2" /> the Valley of Slaughter! |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 19:11 |
| Tell them the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says,<n id="1" /> ‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done.<n id="2" /> I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair.<n id="3" /> The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’<n id="4" /> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 20:3 |
| But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him, “The <sc>Lordsc>’s name for you is not ‘Pashhur’ but ‘Terror is Everywhere.’<n id="1" /> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 22:11 |
| <p class="bodytext">“‘For the <sc>Lordsc> has spoken about Shallum son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of Judah but was carried off into exile. He has said, “He will never return to this land.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 22:28 |
| <p class="poetry">This man, Jeconiah, will be like a broken pot someone threw away.p> <p class="poetry">He will be like a clay vessel<n id="1" /> that no one wants.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Why will he and his children be forced into exile?p> <p class="poetry">Why will they be thrown out into a country they know nothing about?<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 23:2 |
| So the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel has this to say about the leaders who are ruling over his people: “You have caused my people<n id="1" /> to be dispersed and driven into exile. You have not taken care of them. So I will punish you for the evil that you have done.<n id="2" /> I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="3" /> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 23:16 |
| <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all<n id="1" /> says to the people of Jerusalem:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">“Do not listen to whatp> <p class="poetry">those prophets are saying to you.p> <p class="poetry">They are filling you with false hopes.p> <p class="poetry">They are reporting visions of their own imaginations,p> <p class="poetry">not something the <sc>Lordsc> has given them to say.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 23:38 |
| But just suppose you continue to say, ‘The message of the <sc>Lordsc> is burdensome.’ Here is what the <sc>Lordsc> says will happen: ‘I sent word to you that you must not say, “The <sc>Lordsc>’s message is burdensome.” But you used the words “The <sc>Lordsc>’s message is burdensome” anyway. |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 24:3 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “I see figs. The good ones look very good. But the bad ones look very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”p> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 24:8 |
| <p class="bodytext">“I, the <sc>Lordsc>, also solemnly assert: ‘King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the people who remain in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> or who have gone to live in Egypt are like those bad figs. I consider them to be just like those bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 25:3 |
| “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. |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 25:27 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to me,<n id="1" /> “Tell them that the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="2" /> says,<n id="3" /> ‘Drink this cup<n id="4" /> until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can’t get up.<n id="5" /> For I will send wars sweeping through you.’<n id="6" /> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 25:29 |
| For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own.<n id="1" /> So how can you possibly avoid being punished?<n id="2" /> You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all,<n id="3" /> affirm it!’<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 26:19 |
| <p class="bodytext">King Hezekiah and all the people of Judah did not put him to death, did they? Did not Hezekiah show reverence for the <sc>Lordsc> and seek the <sc>Lordsc>’s favor?<n id="1" /> Did not<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> forgo destroying them<n id="3" /> as he threatened he would? But we are on the verge of bringing great disaster on ourselves.”<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.32978704878049) | Jer 27:9 |
| So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination,<n id="1" /> by dreams, by consulting the dead,<n id="2" /> or by practicing magic. They keep telling you, ‘You do not need to be<n id="3" /> subject to the king of Babylon.’ |
