Discovery Box| (0.35306897122302) | 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> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 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> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 2:19 |
| <p class="poetry">Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment.p> <p class="poetry">Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">it was for you to reject me, the <sc>Lordsc> your God,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">to show no respect for me,”<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">says the Lord <sc>Godsc> who rules over all.<n id="5" />p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 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> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 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> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 4:4 |
| <p class="poetry">Just as ritual circumcision cuts away the foreskinp> <p class="poetry">as an external symbol of dedicated covenant commitment,p> <p class="poetry">you must genuinely dedicate yourselves to the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">and get rid of everything that hinders your commitment to me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem.p> <p class="poetry">If you do not,<n id="2" /> my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against youp> <p class="poetry">that no one will be able to extinguish.p> <p class="poetry">That will happen because of the evil you have done.”p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | 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> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 5:14 |
| <p class="bodytext">Because of that,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, the God who rules over all,<n id="2" /> said to me,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">“Because these people have spoken<n id="4" /> like this,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">I will make the words that I put in your mouth like fire.p> <p class="poetry">And I will make this people like woodp> <p class="poetry">which the fiery judgments you speak will burn up.”<n id="6" />p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 5:15 |
| <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" /> “Listen,<n id="2" /> nation of Israel!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you.p> <p class="poetry">It will be a nation that was founded long agop> <p class="poetry">and has lasted for a long time.p> <p class="poetry">It will be a nation whose language you will not know.p> <p class="poetry">Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 5:19 |
| “So then, Jeremiah,<n id="1" /> when your people<n id="2" /> ask, ‘Why has the <sc>Lordsc> our God done all this to us?’ tell them, ‘It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So<n id="3" /> you must serve foreigners<n id="4" /> in a land that does not belong to you.’p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 5:22 |
| <p class="poetry">“You should fear me!” says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">“You should tremble in awe before me!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea,p> <p class="poetry">a permanent barrier that it can never cross.p> <p class="poetry">Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail.p> <p class="poetry">They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 6:10 |
| <p class="bodytext">I answered,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">“Who would listenp> <p class="poetry">if I spoke to them and warned them?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Their ears are so closed<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">that they cannot hear!p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="4" /> what the <sc>Lordsc> says is offensive to them.p> <p class="poetry">They do not like it at all.<n id="5" />p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 6:11 |
| <p class="poetry">I am as full of anger as you are, <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I am tired of trying to hold it in.”p> <p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> answered,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">“Vent it, then,<n id="3" /> on the children who play in the streetp> <p class="poetry">and on the young men who are gathered together.p> <p class="poetry">Husbands and wives are to be included,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">as well as the old and those who are advanced in years.p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 6:15 |
| <p class="poetry">Are they ashamed because they have done such shameful things?p> <p class="poetry">No, they are not at all ashamed.p> <p class="poetry">They do not even know how to blush!p> <p class="poetry">So they will die, just like others have died.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will be brought to ruin when I punish them,”p> <p class="bodytext">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 6:16 |
| <p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to his people:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">“You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Ask where the old, reliable paths<n id="3" /> are.p> <p class="poetry">Ask where the path is that leads to blessing<n id="4" /> and follow it.p> <p class="poetry">If you do, you will find rest for your souls.”p> <p class="poetry">But they said, “We will not follow it!”p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 6:21 |
| <p class="poetry">So, this is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">‘I will assuredly<n id="1" /> make these people stumble to their doom.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Friends and neighbors will die.’p> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 7:13 |
| You also have done all these things, says the <sc>Lordsc>, and I have spoken to you over and over again.<n id="1" /> But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!<n id="2" /> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 7:32 |
| So, watch out!”<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>. “The time will soon come when people will no longer call those places Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom. But they will call that valley<n id="2" /> the Valley of Slaughter and they will bury so many people in Topheth they will run out of room.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 8:1 |
| <p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> says, “When that time comes,<n id="1" /> the bones of the kings of Judah and its leaders, the bones of the priests and prophets and of all the other people who lived in Jerusalem will be dug up from their graves. |
| (0.35306897122302) | Jer 8:3 |
| However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,”<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.<n id="2" />p> |
