Maria Esther Torres
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 12:5 ESV
"If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you are so trusting, what will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 12:3 ESV
But you, O Lord, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 12:2 ESV
You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth and far from their heart.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 12:1 ESV
Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:19 ESV
But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more."
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:23 ESV
and none of them shall be left. For I will bring disaster upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment."
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:22 ESV
therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: "Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:21 ESV
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, and say, "Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand"—
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:20 ESV
But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:18 ESV
The Lord made it known to me and I knew; then you showed me their deeds.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:16 ESV
The Lord once called you 'a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.' But with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:14 ESV
"Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:13 ESV
For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to make offerings to Baal.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:12 ESV
Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:10 ESV
They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:8 ESV
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not."
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:5 ESV
that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day." Then I answered, "So be it, Lord."
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 11:4 ESV
that I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God,
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
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.
Dec 21
Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Jeremiah 10:24 ESV
Correct me, O Lord, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
Dec 21