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Barbara Kalb

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Aug 11

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 29:10 ESV

"For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.

Aug 11

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 29:7 ESV

But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

Aug 11

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 23:29 ESV

Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 23:18 ESV

For who among them has stood in the council of the Lord to see and to hear his word, or who has paid attention to his word and listened?

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 23:17 ESV

They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, 'It shall be well with you'; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, 'No disaster shall come upon you.'"

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 23:16 ESV

Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.

Aug 10

For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my close friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him."

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 20:9 ESV

If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 20:8 ESV

For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, "Violence and destruction!" For the word of the Lord has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 18:10 ESV

and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 18:9 ESV

And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 18:8 ESV

and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 18:7 ESV

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 18:6 ESV

"O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 17:9 ESV

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 17:8 ESV

He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 17:7 ESV

"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 17:6 ESV

He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Aug 10

Barbara Kalb

highlighted Jeremiah 17:5 ESV

Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.

Aug 10

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