TheLionWithin.Us: 3 Questions to Unlock Deeper Insights in God’s Word

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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and through the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Call of Jeremiah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Before I formed you in the womb I knew</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">chose</span></span></span><span class="content"> you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.1.5"><span class="content">before you were born I set you apart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.1.5"><span class="content">I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Alas, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221; I said, &#8220;I do not know how to speak; I am too young.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Do not say, &#8216;I am too young.&#8217; You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, &#8220;I have put my words in your mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: &#8220;What do you see, Jeremiah?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.1.11"><span class="content">&#8220;I see the branch of an almond tree,&#8221; I replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;You have seen correctly, for I am watching</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">watching </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">almond tree</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to see that my word is fulfilled.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me again: &#8220;What do you see?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.1.13"><span class="content">&#8220;I see a pot that is boiling,&#8221; I answered. &#8220;It is tilting toward us from the north.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I am about to summon all the peoples of the northern kingdoms,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Their kings will come and set up their thrones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="content">in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="content">they will come against all her surrounding walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="content">and against all the towns of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will pronounce my judgments on my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.1.16"><span class="content">because of their wickedness in forsaking me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.1.16"><span class="content">in burning incense to other gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.1.16"><span class="content">and in worshiping what their hands have made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land&#8212;against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people of the land. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man divorces his wife</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">and she leaves him and marries another man,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">should he return to her again?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">Would not the land be completely defiled?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">would you now return to me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look up to the barren heights and see.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">Is there any place where you have not been ravished?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">sat like a nomad in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">You have defiled the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">with your prostitution and wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore the showers have been withheld,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">and no spring rains have fallen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">you refuse to blush with shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Have you not just called to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="content">&#8216;My Father, my friend from my youth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">will you always be angry?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">Will your wrath continue forever?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">This is how you talk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">but you do all the evil you can.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Unfaithful Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">During the reign of King Josiah, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Because Israel&#8217;s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Go, proclaim this message toward the north:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Return, faithless Israel,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8216;I will frown on you no longer,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">for I am faithful,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">&#8216;I will not be angry forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Only acknowledge your guilt&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">you have rebelled against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">you have scattered your favors to foreign gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">under every spreading tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">and have not obeyed me,&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Return, faithless people,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;for I am your husband. I will choose you&#8212;one from a town and two from a clan&#8212;and bring you to Zion. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;people will no longer say, &#8216;The ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217; It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;I myself said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How gladly would I treat you like my children</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">and give you a pleasant land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">I thought you would call me &#8216;Father&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">and not turn away from following me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But like a woman unfaithful to her husband,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">A cry is heard on the barren heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">because they have perverted their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">and have forgotten the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Return, faithless people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">I will cure you of backsliding.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, we will come to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">for you are the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">and mountains is a deception;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">surely in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">is the salvation of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">From our youth shameful gods have consumed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">the fruits of our ancestors&#8217; labor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">their flocks and herds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">their sons and daughters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let us lie down in our shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">and let our disgrace cover us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">We have sinned against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">both we and our ancestors;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">from our youth till this day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.3.25"><span class="content">we have not obeyed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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