Maria Esther Torres

You summoned as if to a festival day my terrors on every side, and on the day of the anger of the Lord no one escaped or survived; those whom I held and raised my enemy destroyed.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Lamentations 2:14 ESV

Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Lamentations 2:13 ESV

What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is vast as the sea; who can heal you?

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Lamentations 2:9 ESV

Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the Lord.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

finished reading Lamentations 1, Psalms 119:49-56, 2 Corinthians 9, 2 Corinthians 10 in Bible in One Year:

How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave....

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 2 Corinthians 10:11 ESV

Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 2 Corinthians 10:8 ESV

For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 2 Corinthians 10:7 ESV

Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Lamentations 1:20 ESV

"Look, O Lord, for I am in distress; my stomach churns; my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Lamentations 1:18 ESV

"The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and see my suffering; my young women and my young men have gone into captivity.

almost 11 years ago

"My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck; he caused my strength to fail; the Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Lamentations 1:5 ESV

Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

finished reading Jeremiah 51, Jeremiah 52, Psalms 119:41-48, 2 Corinthians 7, 2 Corinthians 8 in Bible in One Year:

Thus says the Lord: "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,...

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 2 Corinthians 8:4 ESV

begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints—

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted 2 Corinthians 8:3 ESV

For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 52:3 ESV

For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 52:34 ESV

and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, until the day of his death, as long as he lived.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 52:33 ESV

So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table,

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 52:32 ESV

And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

almost 11 years ago

Maria Esther Torres

highlighted Jeremiah 52:31 ESV

And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

almost 11 years ago

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