18 Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the t...  Read More

24 “‘But if you listen to me, declares the Lord, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it, 25 then there shall enter by t...  Read More

19 Thus said the Lord to me: “Go and stand in the People’s Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, 20 and say: ‘Hear the word of the Lord, ...  Read More

14          Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed;save me, and I shall be saved,for you are my praise.            15          Behold, they say to me,“Where is the word of the Lord?Let it come!”      ...  Read More

9           The heart is deceitful above all things,and desperately sick;who can understand it?            10          “I the Lord search the heartand test the mind,                        to give eve...  Read More

5           Thus says the Lord:                        “Cursed is the man who trusts in manand makes flesh his strength,whose heart turns away from the Lord.            6           He is like a shrub ...  Read More

17 “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars, 2 while their children remember their altars ...  Read More

19          O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,my refuge in the day of trouble,                        to you shall the nations comefrom the ends of the earth and say:                        “Our f...  Read More

16 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this pl...  Read More

19 Therefore thus says the Lord:“If you return, I will restore you,and you shall stand before me.If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless,you shall be as my mouth.They shall turn to yo...  Read More

15  O Lord, you know;remember me and visit me,tand take vengeance for me on my persecutors.In your forbearance take me not away;know that for your sake I bear reproach.16 Your words were found, and I ...  Read More

10 Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. 11 The Lord said, “Have I not set you free ...  Read More