(0.92168095495495) | Jer 14:15 | I did not send those prophets, though they claim to be prophesying in my name. They may be saying, 8216;No war or famine will happen in this land.8217; But I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say this about<n id="1" /> them: 8216;War and starvation will kill those prophets.8217;<n id="2" /> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 14:22 | <p class="poetry">Do any of the worthless idols<n id="1" /> of the nations cause rain to fall?p> <p class="poetry">Do the skies themselves send showers?p> <p class="poetry">Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">So we put our hopes in you<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">because you alone do all this.8221;p> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 15:2 | If they ask you, 8216;Where should we go?8217; tell them the <sc>Lordsc> says this:p> <p class="poetry">8220;Those who are destined to die of disease will go to death by disease.p> <p class="poetry">Those who are destined to die in war will go to death in war.p> <p class="poetry">Those who are destined to die of starvation will go to death by starvation.p> <p class="poetry">Those who are destined to go into exile will go into exile.8221;<n id="1" />p> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 15:3 | <p class="bodytext">8220;I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.<n id="1" /> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 15:9 | <p class="poetry">The mother who had seven children<n id="1" /> will grow faint.p> <p class="poetry">All the breath will go out of her.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Her pride and joy will be taken from her in the prime of their life.p> <p class="poetry">It will seem as if the sun had set while it was still day.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">She will suffer shame and humiliation.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">I will cause any of them who are still left alivep> <p class="poetry">to be killed in war by the onslaughts of their enemies,8221;<n id="5" />p> <p class="bodytext">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 15:19 | <p class="bodytext">Because of this, the <sc>Lordsc> said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">8220;You must repent of such words and thoughts!p> <p class="poetry">If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless,p> <p class="poetry">I will again allow you to be my spokesman.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They must become as you have been.p> <p class="poetry">You must not become like them.<n id="4" />p> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 16:3 | For I, the <sc>Lordsc>, tell you what will happen to<n id="1" /> the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.<n id="2" /> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 16:9 | For I, the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all, tell you what will happen.<n id="1" /> I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in this land. You and the rest of the people will live to see this happen.8217;8221;<n id="2" />p> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 16:11 | Then tell them that the <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" /> 8216;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" /> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 16:15 | But in that time they will affirm them with 8216;I swear as surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives who delivered the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.8217; At that time I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors.8221;<n id="1" />p> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 16:16 | <p class="bodytext">But for now I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> 8220;I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks.<n id="2" /> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 16:19 | <p class="bodytext">Then I said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">8220;<sc>Lordsc>, you give me strength and protect me.p> <p class="poetry">You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Nations from all over the earthp> <p class="poetry">will come to you and say,p> <p class="poetry">8216;Our ancestors had nothing but false gods 8211;p> <p class="poetry">worthless idols that could not help them at all.<n id="3" />p> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 17:19 | <t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> told me, 8220;Go and stand in the People8217;s Gate<n id="2" /> through which the kings of Judah enter and leave the city. Then go and stand in all the other gates of the city of Jerusalem.<n id="3" /> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 17:24 | The <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" /> 8216;You must make sure to obey me. You must not bring any loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day. You must set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not do any work on that day. |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 17:26 | Then people will come here from the towns in Judah, from the villages surrounding Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin, from the western foothills, from the southern hill country, and from the southern part of Judah. They will come bringing offerings to the temple of the <sc>Lordsc>: burnt offerings, sacrifices, grain offerings, and incense along with their thank offerings.<n id="1" /> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 18:6 | 8220;I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> 8216;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 potter8217;s hand.8217; |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 18:11 | So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem<n id="1" /> this: The <sc>Lordsc> says, 8216;I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you.<n id="2" /> So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing.<n id="3" /> Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.8217;<n id="4" /> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 18:23 | <p class="poetry">But you, <sc>Lordsc>, knowp> <p class="poetry">all their plots to kill me.p> <p class="poetry">Do not pardon their crimes!p> <p class="poetry">Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them be brought down in defeat before you!p> <p class="poetry">Deal with them while you are still angry!<n id="2" />p> |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 19:6 | So I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> 8220;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! |
(0.92168095495495) | Jer 19:11 | Tell them the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says,<n id="1" /> 8216;I will do just as Jeremiah has done.<n id="2" /> I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter8217;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.8217;<n id="4" /> |