7           Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:                        “Behold, I will refine them and test them,for what else can I do, because of my people?            8           Their tongue is...  Read More

4           Let everyone beware of his neighbor,and put no trust in any brother,                        for every brother is a deceiver,and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.            5      ...  Read More

22          Is there no balm in Gilead?Is there no physician there?                        Why then has the health of the daughter of my peoplenot been restored?9 Oh that my head were waters,and my ey...  Read More

18          My joy is gone; grief is upon me;my heart is sick within me.            19          Behold, the cry of the daughter of my peoplefrom the length and breadth of the land:                    ...  Read More

16          “The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan;at the sound of the neighing of their stallionsthe whole land quakes.                        They come and devour the land and all that fill...  Read More

14          Why do we sit still?                        Gather together; let us go into the fortified citiesand perish there,                        for the Lord our God has doomed us to perishand has...  Read More

4 “You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:When men fall, do they not rise again?If one turns away, does he not return?5 Why then has this people turned awayin perpetual backsliding?They hold fast t...  Read More

8 “At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shal...  Read More

8           “How can you say, ‘We are wise,and the law of the Lord is with us’?                        But behold, the lying pen of the scribeshas made it into a lie.            9           The wise m...  Read More

30 “For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. 31 And they have built the high pla...  Read More

27 “So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you. 28 And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not ob...  Read More

21 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. 22 For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to y...  Read More