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Maria Esther Torres

Then I said: "Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets say to them, 'You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.'"

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 14:12 ESV

Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence."

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 14:11 ESV

The Lord said to me: "Do not pray for the welfare of this people.

Dec 22

Thus says the Lord concerning this people: "They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the Lord does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 14:9 ESV

Why should you be like a man confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot save? Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not leave us."

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 14:7 ESV

"Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 14:4 ESV

Because of the ground that is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 14:3 ESV

Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:26 ESV

I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:27 ESV

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:25 ESV

This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:23 ESV

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:22 ESV

And if you say in your heart, 'Why have these things come upon me?' it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you suffer violence.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:15 ESV

Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the Lord has spoken.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:14 ESV

And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the Lord. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.'"

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:13 ESV

Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:12 ESV

"You shall speak to them this word: 'Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, "Every jar shall be filled with wine."' And they will say to you, 'Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?'

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:11 ESV

For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the Lord, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:10 ESV

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 13:9 ESV

"Thus says the Lord: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Dec 22

Maria Esther Torres

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