Ezekiel 48
The Division of the Land 1 “These are the tribes, listed by name: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion; it will follow the Hethlon road to Lebo…
Lamentations 1
1 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the…
Lamentations 2
1 How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered…
Lamentations 3
1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of theLord’s wrath. 2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;…
Lamentations 4
1 How the gold has lost its luster, the fine gold become dull! The sacred gems are scattered at every street corner. 2 How the precious children of Zion, once…
Lamentations 5
1 Remember,Lord, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace. 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. 3 We have become fatherless,…
Jeremiah 1
1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. 2 The word of theLordcame to him in the thirteenth year…
Jeremiah 2
Israel Forsakes God 1 The word of theLordcame to me: 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what theLordsays: “ ‘I remember the devotion of your youth,…
Jeremiah 3
1 “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you…
Jeremiah 4
1 “If you, Israel, will return, then return to me,” declares theLord. “If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray, 2 and if…