Discovery Box| (0.35477115107914) | Isa 60:19 |
| <p class="poetry">The sun will no longer supply light for you by day,p> <p class="poetry">nor will the moon’s brightness shine on you;p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> will be your permanent source of light –p> <p class="poetry">the splendor of your God will shine upon you.<n id="1" />p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Isa 61:3 |
| <p class="poetry">to strengthen those who mourn in Zion,p> <p class="poetry">by giving them a turban, instead of ashes,p> <p class="poetry">oil symbolizing joy,<n id="1" /> instead of mourning,p> <p class="poetry">a garment symbolizing praise,<n id="2" /> instead of discouragement.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will be called oaks of righteousness,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">trees planted by the <sc>Lordsc> to reveal his splendor.<n id="5" />p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Isa 62:4 |
| <p class="poetry">You will no longer be called, “Abandoned,”p> <p class="poetry">and your land will no longer be called “Desolate.”p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> you will be called “My Delight is in Her,”<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and your land “Married.”<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> will take delight in you,p> <p class="poetry">and your land will be married to him.<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Isa 62:8 |
| <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> swears an oath by his right hand,p> <p class="poetry">by his strong arm:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">“I will never again give your grainp> <p class="poetry">to your enemies as food,p> <p class="poetry">and foreigners will not drink your wine,p> <p class="poetry">which you worked hard to produce.p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Isa 65:7 |
| <p class="poetry">for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,”<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">“Because they burned incense on the mountainsp> <p class="poetry">and offended<n id="2" /> me on the hills,p> <p class="poetry">I will punish them in full measure.”<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Isa 65:8 |
| <p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">“When<n id="1" /> juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes,p> <p class="poetry">someone says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">So I will do for the sake of my servants –p> <p class="poetry">I will not destroy everyone.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Isa 65:13 |
| <p class="poetry">So this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry!p> <p class="poetry">Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty!p> <p class="poetry">Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Isa 65:25 |
| <p class="poetry">A wolf and a lamb will graze together;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a lion, like an ox, will eat straw,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and a snake’s food will be dirt.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will no longer injure or destroyp> <p class="poetry">on my entire royal mountain,”<n id="4" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Isa 66:2 |
| <p class="poetry">My hand made them;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that is how they came to be,”<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">I show special favor<n id="3" /> to the humble and contrite,p> <p class="poetry">who respect what I have to say.<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Isa 66:12 |
| <p class="poetry">For this is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river,p> <p class="poetry">the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You will nurse from her breast<n id="2" /> and be carried at her side;p> <p class="poetry">you will play on her knees.p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Jer 1:15 |
| For I will soon summon all the peoples of the kingdoms of the north,” says the <sc>Lordsc>. “They will come and their kings will set up their thrones<n id="1" /> near the entrances of the gates of Jerusalem.<n id="2" /> They will attack all the walls surrounding it, and all the towns in Judah.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Jer 2:2 |
| “Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem:<n id="1" /> ‘This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: “I have fond memories of you,<n id="2" /> how devoted you were to me in your early years.<n id="3" /> I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted. |
| (0.35477115107914) | Jer 2:6 |
| <p class="poetry">They did not ask:p> <p class="poetry">‘Where is the <sc>Lordsc> who delivered us out of Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">who brought us through the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">through a land of desert sands and rift valleys,p> <p class="poetry">through a land of drought and deep darkness,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">through a land in which no one travels,p> <p class="poetry">and where no one lives?’<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Jer 2:8 |
| <p class="poetry">Your priests<n id="1" /> did not ask, ‘Where is the <sc>Lordsc>?’<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Those responsible for teaching my law<n id="3" /> did not really know me.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Your rulers rebelled against me.p> <p class="poetry">Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">They all worshiped idols that could not help them.<n id="6" />p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Jer 2:31 |
| <p class="poetry">You people of this generation,p> <p class="poetry">listen to what the <sc>Lordsc> says.p> <p class="poetry">“Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel?p> <p class="poetry">Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Why then do you<n id="2" /> say, ‘We are free to wander.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">We will not come to you any more?’p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Jer 3:1 |
| <p class="poetry">“If a man divorces his wifep> <p class="poetry">and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife,p> <p class="poetry">he may not take her back again.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Doing that would utterly defile the land.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">So what makes you think you can return to me?”<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Jer 3:6 |
| <p class="bodytext">When Josiah was king of Judah, the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, “Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done.<n id="1" /> You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Jer 3:13 |
| <p class="poetry">However, you must confess that you have done wrong,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and that you have rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p> <p class="poetry">You must confess<n id="2" /> that you have given yourself to<n id="3" /> foreign gods under every green tree,p> <p class="poetry">and have not obeyed my commands,’ says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Jer 3:25 |
| <p class="poetry">Let us acknowledge<n id="1" /> our shame.p> <p class="poetry">Let us bear the disgrace that we deserve.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For we have sinned against the <sc>Lordsc> our God,p> <p class="poetry">both we and our ancestors.p> <p class="poetry">From earliest times to this very dayp> <p class="poetry">we have not obeyed the <sc>Lordsc> our God.’p> |
| (0.35477115107914) | Jer 5:5 |
| <p class="poetry">I will go to the leaders<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and speak with them.p> <p class="poetry">Surely they know what the <sc>Lordsc> demands.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Surely they know what their God requires of them.”<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authorityp> <p class="poetry">and refuse to submit to him.<n id="4" />p> |
