Lisa G Akins
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Lisa G Akins
highlighted Ezekiel 9:4 ESV
And the Lord said to him, "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it."
Aug 30
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Ezekiel 9:5-6 ESV
And to the others he said in my hearing, "Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house.
Aug 30
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 44:16-17 ESV
"As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.
Aug 22
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 36:7 ESV
It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the Lord, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people."
Aug 18
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 17:9 ESV
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Aug 12
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 16:19 ESV
O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
Aug 12
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 10:25 ESV
Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Aug 11
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 10:24 ESV
Correct me, O Lord, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Aug 11
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 10:10 ESV
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Aug 11
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 10:6 ESV
There is none like you, O Lord; you are great, and your name is great in might.
Aug 11
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV
Thus says the Lord: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord."
Aug 10
Lisa G Akins
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 10
Lisa G Akins
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 10
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 5:26-29 ESV
For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich; they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy. Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Aug 9
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 4:22 ESV
"For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise'—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not."
Aug 9
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 3:25 ESV
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God."
Aug 8
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 1:12 ESV
Then the Lord said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it."
Aug 8
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Jeremiah 1:5 ESV
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Aug 8
Lisa G Akins
highlighted 2 Chronicles 34:3 ESV
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
Aug 6
Lisa G Akins
highlighted Nahum 1:5-7 ESV
The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it. Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him. The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
Aug 5