Study Desk

Look around you and see what is happening: Your people are gathering to come home! Your sons will come from far away; Your daughters will be carried like children.

You will see this and be filled with joy; You will tremble with excitement. The wealth of the nations will be brought to you; From across the sea their riches will come.

Jerusalem, the nations will see you victorious! All their kings will see your glory. You will be called by a new name, A name given by the Lord himself.

Why don't you tear the sky open and come down? The mountains would see you and shake with fear.

Listen to what the Lord says, you that fear him and obey him: "Because you are faithful to me, some of your own people hate you and will have nothing to do with you. They mock you and say, ‘Let the Lord show his greatness and save you, so that we may see you rejoice.' But they themselves will be disgraced!

When you see this happen, you will be glad; it will make you strong and healthy. Then you will know that I, the Lord , help those who obey me, and I show my anger against my enemies."

I know their thoughts and their deeds. I am coming to gather the people of all the nations. When they come together, they will see what my power can do

"As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me. The worms that eat them will never die, and the fire that burns them will never be put out. The sight of them will be disgusting to all people."

The Lord asked me, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" I answered, "A branch of an almond tree."

"You are right," the Lord said, "and I am watching to see that my words come true."

Then the Lord spoke to me again. "What else do you see?" he asked. I answered, "I see a pot boiling in the north, and it is about to tip over this way."

Go west to the island of Cyprus, and send someone eastward to the land of Kedar. You will see that nothing like this has ever happened before.

Even if you washed with the strongest soap, I would still see the stain of your guilt.

How can you say you have not defiled yourself, that you have never worshiped Baal? Look how you sinned in the valley; see what you have done. You are like a wild camel in heat, running around loose,

How long must I see the battle raging and hear the blasts of trumpets?

People of Jerusalem, run through your streets! Look around! See for yourselves! Search the marketplaces! Can you find one person who does what is right and tries to be faithful to God? If you can, the Lord will forgive Jerusalem.

Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.

As a well keeps its water fresh, so Jerusalem keeps its evil fresh. I hear violence and destruction in the city; sickness and wounds are all I see.

Go to Shiloh, the first place where I chose to be worshiped, and see what I did to it because of the sins of my people Israel.

Don't you see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?