Discovery Box| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 9:2 |
| <p class="poetry"><v id="(9:1)" /> I wish I had a lodging place in the desertp> <p class="poetry">where I could spend some time like a weary traveler.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Then I would desert my peoplep> <p class="poetry">and walk away from themp> <p class="poetry">because they are all unfaithful to God,p> <p class="poetry">a congregation<n id="2" /> of people that has been disloyal to him.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 9:8 |
| <p class="poetry">Their tongues are like deadly arrows.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They are always telling lies.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths.p> <p class="poetry">But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 9:11 |
| <p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">“I will make Jerusalem<n id="2" /> a heap of ruins.p> <p class="poetry">Jackals will make their home there.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I will destroy the towns of Judahp> <p class="poetry">so that no one will be able to live in them.”p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 9:13 |
| <p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> answered, “This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 9:15 |
| So then, listen to what I, the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all,<n id="1" /> say.<n id="2" /> ‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 9:16 |
| I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors<n id="1" /> have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords<n id="2" /> until I have destroyed them.’”<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 10:18 |
| <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> says, “I will now throw outp> <p class="poetry">those who live in this land.p> <p class="poetry">I will bring so much trouble on themp> <p class="poetry">that they will actually feel it.”<n id="1" />p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 10:22 |
| <p class="poetry">Listen! News is coming even now.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The rumble of a great army is heard approaching<n id="2" /> from a land in the north.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,p> <p class="poetry">places where only jackals live.p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 11:3 |
| Tell them that the <sc>Lord,sc> the God of Israel, says, ‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 11:20 |
| <p class="poetry">So I said to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">“O <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all,<n id="2" /> you are a just judge!p> <p class="poetry">You examine people’s hearts and minds.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I want to see you pay them back for what they have donep> <p class="poetry">because I trust you to vindicate my cause.”<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 11:21 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> told me about<n id="1" /> some men from Anathoth<n id="2" /> who were threatening to kill me.<n id="3" /> They had threatened,<n id="4" /> “Stop prophesying in the name of the <sc>Lordsc> or we will kill you!”<n id="5" /> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 13:4 |
| “Take the shorts that you bought and are wearing<n id="1" /> and go at once<n id="2" /> to Perath.<n id="3" /> Bury the shorts there<n id="4" /> in a crack in the rocks.” |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 13:6 |
| Many days later the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, “Go at once to Perath and get<n id="1" /> the shorts I ordered you to bury there.” |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 13:7 |
| So I went to Perath and dug up<n id="1" /> the shorts from the place where I had buried them. I found<n id="2" /> that they were ruined; they were good for nothing.p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 15:11 |
| <p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said,p> <p class="poetry">“Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> I will surely send you away for your own good.p> <p class="poetry">I will surely<n id="2" /> bring the enemy upon you in a time of trouble and distress.p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 16:14 |
| <p class="bodytext">Yet<n id="1" /> I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="2" /> “A new time will certainly come.<n id="3" /> People now affirm their oaths with ‘I swear as surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.’ |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 16:21 |
| <p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">“So I will now let this wicked people know –p> <p class="poetry">I will let them know my mighty power in judgment.p> <p class="poetry">Then they will know that my name is the <sc>Lordsc>.”<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 17:13 |
| <p class="poetry">You are the one in whom Israel may find hope.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All who leave you will suffer shame.p> <p class="poetry">Those who turn away from you<n id="2" /> will be consigned to the nether world.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For they have rejected you, the <sc>Lordsc>, the fountain of life.<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 18:20 |
| <p class="poetry">Should good be paid back with evil?p> <p class="poetry">Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Just remember how I stood before youp> <p class="poetry">pleading on their behalf<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to keep you from venting your anger on them.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.41669706293706) | Jer 19:2 |
| Go out to the part of the Hinnom Valley which is near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate.<n id="1" /> Announce there what I tell you.<n id="2" /> |
