God’s Anger over Israel 1 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger. 2 The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared All the […]
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Lamentations 3
Jeremiah Shares Israel’s Affliction 1 I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath. 2 He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. 3 Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day. 4 He has caused my flesh and […]
Lamentations 4
Distress of the Siege Described 1 How dark the gold has become, Howthe pure gold has changed! The sacred stones are poured out At the corner of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion, Weighed against fine gold, How they are regarded as earthen jars, The work of a potter’s hands! 3 Even jackals […]
Lamentations 5
A Prayer for Mercy 1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; Look, and see our reproach! 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliens. 3 We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows. 4 We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comesto […]
Jeremiah 1
Jeremiah’s Call and Commission 1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, 2 to whom the word of the Lordcame in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It came […]
Jeremiah 2
Judah’s Apostasy 1 Now the word of the Lordcame to me saying, 2 “Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, “I remember concerning you the devotion of your youth, The love of your betrothals, Your following after Me in the wilderness, Through a land not sown. 3 “Israel was […]
Jeremiah 3
The Polluted Land 1 Godsays, “If a husband divorces his wife And she goes from him And belongs to another man, Will he still return to her? Will not that land be completely polluted? But you are a harlotwithmany lovers; Yet you turn to Me,” declares the Lord. 2 “Lift up your eyes to the […]
Jeremiah 4
Judah Threatened with Invasion 1 “If you will return, O Israel,” declares the Lord, “Thenyou should return to Me. And if you will put away your detested things from My presence, And will not waver, 2 And you will swear, ‘As the Lordlives,’ In truth, in justice and in righteousness; Then the nations will bless […]
Jeremiah 5
Jerusalem’s Godlessness 1 “Roam to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And look now and take note. And seek in her open squares, If you can find a man, If there is one who does justice, who seeks truth, Then I will pardon her. 2 “And although they say, ‘As the Lordlives,’ Surely they […]
Jeremiah 6
Destruction of Jerusalem Impending 1 “Flee for safety, O sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem! Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa # And raise a signal overBeth-haccerem; For evil looks down from the north, And a great destruction. 2 “The comely and dainty one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off. 3 […]