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Ha!
Assyria, rod of My anger,
In whose hand, as a staff, is My fury!
I send him against an ungodly nation,
I charge him against a people that provokes Me,
To take its spoil and to seize its booty
A…
Shout, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth!
Break into shouting, O hills!
For the Lord has comforted His people,
And has taken back His afflicted ones in love. [ . . . ]
Swiftly your children are…
Awake, awake, O Zion!
Clothe yourself in splendor;
Put on your robes of majesty,
Jerusalem, holy city!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
Shall never enter you again.
Arise, shake…
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the house of a potter, and there I will impart My words to you.” So I went down to the house of a potter, and found him working at the…
Thus said the Lord: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say is ruined, without man or beast— in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man…
The word of the Lord that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi son of Gedaliah son of Amariah son of Hezekiah, during the reign of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah.
I will sweep everything away
From the…
Ah, sullied, polluted,
Overbearing city!
She has been disobedient,
Has learned no lesson;
She has not trusted in the Lord,
Has not drawn near to her God.
The officials within her
Are roaring lions…
For then I will make the peoples pure of speech,
So that they all invoke the Lord by name
And serve Him with one accord.
From beyond the rivers of Cush, My suppliants
Shall bring offerings to Me…
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; his mother’s name was Hephzibah. He did what was displeasing to the Lord, following the abhorrent…
His [Asa’s] son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king, and took firm hold of Israel. He stationed troops in all the fortified towns of Judah, and stationed garrisons throughout the land of…