Maria Esther Torres

Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 9:4 ESV

Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:22 ESV

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:20 ESV

"The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved."

almost 11 years ago

Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: "Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and with their foreign idols?"

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:18 ESV

My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:17 ESV

For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you," declares the Lord.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:15 ESV

We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:14 ESV

Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:13 ESV

When I would gather them, declares the Lord, there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree; even the leaves are withered, and what I gave them has passed away from them."

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:12 ESV

Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:9 ESV

The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom is in them?

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:10 ESV

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:7 ESV

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 8:4 ESV

"You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

finished reading Jeremiah 6, Jeremiah 7, Psalms 105:26-45, Romans 3, Romans 4 in Bible in One Year:

Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms out of the north, and great destruction....

almost 11 years ago