Matthewjacobson40
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Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 8:11 ESV
They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
Aug 25
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 8:8-9 ESV
"How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom is in them?
Aug 25
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 8:7 ESV
Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord.
Aug 21
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 8:6 ESV
I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
Aug 21
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 8:4 ESV
"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?
Aug 21
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 8:1-3 ESV
"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 shall be brought out of their tombs.And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 7:26 ESV
Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 7:23 ESV
But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 7:22 ESV
For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 7:20 ESV
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched."
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 7:17-18 ESV
Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 7:16 ESV
"As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 7:9-10 ESV
and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, 'We are delivered!'—only to go on doing all these abominations?Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 7:5-7 ESV
"For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another,if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 6:27 ESV
"I have made you a tester of metals among my people, that you may know and test their ways.
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 6:26 ESV
O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 6:23 ESV
They lay hold on bow and javelin; they are cruel and have no mercy; the sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride on horses, set in array as a man for battle, against you, O daughter of Zion!"
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 6:22 ESV
Thus says the Lord: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 6:17 ESV
I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not pay attention.'
Aug 18
Matthewjacobson40
highlighted Jeremiah 6:16 ESV
Thus says the Lord: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
Aug 18