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• Jeremiah 37Bible

  Jeremiah 37 recounts how, during the reign of King Zedekiah, Jeremiah is arrested on a charge of desertion and imprisoned while the Babylonian army has temporarily withdrawn, and how the king secretly summons him to ask for a word from the LORD.

• Jeremiah 43Bible

  Jeremiah 43 records how Johanan and the remnant of Judah rejected Jeremiah's warning as false and went down to Tahpanhes in Egypt, taking Jeremiah and Baruch with them. There Jeremiah buried large stones as a symbolic act, prophesying that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, would invade Egypt.

• Ezekiel 21Bible

  Ezekiel 21 contains prophecies that the LORD will draw His sword to judge Jerusalem and the king of Israel, that the king of Babylon will practice divination at a fork in the road and turn toward Jerusalem, and that Ammon will also come under judgment.

• Ezekiel 36Bible

  Ezekiel 36 is a prophecy promising restoration to the desolate mountains of Israel and declaring that God will gather His people for the sake of His holy name, cleanse them, and give them a new spirit and a new heart.

• Micah 6Bible

  Micah 6 is the chapter in which the LORD calls the mountains as witnesses and pleads His case against His people. He requires justice, mercy, and a humble walk with God rather than sacrifices, rebukes dishonest commerce and the sin of following the ways of the kings of northern Israel, and pronounces judgment.

• Revelation 15Bible

  Revelation 15 is the chapter in which seven angels appear holding the seven last plagues. Beside the sea of glass, those who have overcome the beast sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb, and the seven angels receive golden vials full of the wrath of God.

• PhoeniciaBible

  Phoenicia is a New Testament place name for the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, roughly the coastal region of present-day Lebanon. Its chief cities were Tyre and Sidon, and in Acts it appears as a gateway through which the gospel spread into Gentile lands.

• Exodus 14Bible

  Exodus 14 is the chapter in which the children of Israel, encamped by the sea, are pursued by Pharaoh's army. When Moses stretches out his hand, the sea divides, Israel crosses on dry ground, and the pursuing Egyptian army is covered by the waters.

• Job 18Bible

  Job 18 contains the second speech of Bildad the Shuhite. Bildad rebukes Job's protests and describes at length how the light of the wicked is put out, how the wicked man is caught in a snare, and how he is left with neither descendants nor a name.

• Psalm 123Bible

  Psalm 123 is one of the Songs of Ascents. It is a brief four-verse prayer in which the psalmist looks to God as a servant looks to the hand of his master, pleading for mercy amid contempt and scorn.

• Psalm 128Bible

  Psalm 128 is one of the Songs of Ascents. In six short verses, it portrays the blessings of the one who fears the LORD: the fruit of his labor, a wife and children, and the prosperity of Zion and Jerusalem.

• Psalm 133Bible

  Psalm 133 is one of the Songs of Ascents. This brief three-verse psalm celebrates the beauty of brothers dwelling together in unity, comparing it to the oil poured on Aaron's head and to the dew of Hermon.

• Ecclesiastes 3Bible

  Ecclesiastes 3 declares, in fourteen pairs of opposites, that there is an appointed time for everything under heaven. It then reflects on human labor and the work of God, on injustice and judgment, and on the death that comes alike to humans and animals.

• Jeremiah 13Bible

  In this chapter Jeremiah hides a linen girdle by the Euphrates and later recovers it ruined, a symbolic act showing that Judah's pride will be marred. Together with the parable of the wine bottles, the chapter warns that the royal house and Jerusalem will be carried into captivity.

• Jeremiah 15Bible

  Jeremiah 15 contains God's irrevocable declaration of judgment against the people, along with Jeremiah's lament amid persecution and God's promise of restoration.

• Jeremiah 17Bible

  Jeremiah 17 addresses Judah's deep-rooted sin and coming judgment, contrasts the one who trusts in man with the one who trusts in the LORD, records Jeremiah's prayer of lament, and presents the message on Sabbath observance that he proclaimed at the city gates.

• Jeremiah 14Bible

  Jeremiah 14 is set against the backdrop of a drought that has struck Judah. It records the people's confession of sin and their lament, the LORD's reply that He will not accept their prayer, and His judgment on the false prophets who proclaim "peace."

• Jeremiah 41Bible

  Jeremiah 41 tells how Gedaliah, the governor appointed by Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem, is murdered by Ishmael at Mizpah, and how Johanan recovers the captive people but then, fearing Babylonian reprisal, prepares to leave for Egypt.

• Jeremiah 33:6–9Bible Verses

  Jeremiah 33:6–9 is a passage in which God promises to heal Jerusalem, then besieged by Babylon and on the verge of collapse, to bring back its captives, and to forgive its sins. Because it contains promises of restoration and forgiveness, it is frequently cited in sermons on healing and restoration.

• Psalm 125:1-2Bible Verses

  A passage declaring that those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, and that God surrounds His people forever as the mountains surround Jerusalem. It is frequently cited as a classic text on the believer's security and God's protection.