I, the Lord, will punish you because you have denied that you have sinned.
(Jeremiah 2:35)
I am merciful, says the Lord; I will not keep anger for ever.
(Jeremiah 3:12)
I want you to call me father and never again turn away from me.
(Jeremiah 3:19)
Return, all of you who have turned away fro m the Lord; he will heal you and make you faithful.
(Jeremiah 3:22)
It is only the Lord’s mercies that have kept us form complete destruction.
(Jeremiah 3:22, Living Bible)
Wash the evil from your heart, so that you may be saved.
(Jeremiah 4:14)
The Lord asks for faithfulness.
(Jeremiah 5:3)
I will make my words like a fire in your mouth.
(Jeremiah 5:14)
What do I care about incense from Sheba or sweet calamus from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please me.
(Jeremiah 6:20)
Be fair in your treatment of one another.
(Jeremiah 7:5)
Do you think that my Temple is a hiding place for robbers?
(Jeremiah 7:11)
Is it I Whom they provoke to anger? says the Lord. Is it not themselves, whom they provoke to their own confusion and vexation and to their own shame?
(Jeremiah 7:19)
My heart has been crushed because my people are crushed.”
(Jeremiah 8:21)
I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight.
(Jeremiah 9:24)
The Lord is the true God, he is the living God.
(Jeremiah 10:10)
None of us are in charge of our own destiny; none of us have control over our own life.
(Jeremiah 10:23)
I said, “Yes, Lord.”
(Jeremiah 11:5)
You are the one who saves us.
(Jeremiah 14:8, Good News Bible)
You, Lord, are in the midst of us.
(Jeremiah 14:9)
Your words filled my heart with joy and happiness.
(Jeremiah 15:16, Good News Bible)
Your words are what sustain me; they are food to my hungry soul.
(Jeremiah 15:16, Living Bible)
If you return, I will take you back.
(Jeremiah 15:19, Good News Bible)
Nothing is hidden from me.
(Jeremiah 16:17, Good News Bible)
I will condemn those who turn away from me and put their trust in human beings, in the strength of mortals. ... But I will bless the person who puts his trust in me. He is like a tree growing near a stream and sending out roots to the water.
(Jeremiah 17:5,7)
Who can understand the human heart?
(Jeremiah 17:9, Good News Bible)
“I, the Lord, search the minds and test the hearts of people. I treat each of them according to the way they live, according to what they do.”
(Jeremiah 17:10)
Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved.
(Jeremiah 17:14)
Turn back from your evil paths and do what is right.
(Jeremiah 18:11, Living Bible)
Your message is like a fire burning deep within me. I try my best to hold it in, but can no longer keep it back.
(Jeremiah 20:9, Good News Bible)
Praise the Lord! He rescues the oppressed from the power of evil people.
(Jeremiah 20:13)
I, the Lord, am giving you a choice between the way that leads to life and the way that leads to death.
(Jeremiah 21:8)
See that justice is done every day.
(Jeremiah 21:12)
Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence.
(Jeremiah 22:3)
“I swear by myself.”
(Jeremiah 22:5)
Don’t weep for the dead!
(Jeremiah 22:10, Living Bible)
Doomed is the one who builds his house by injustice and enlarges it by dishonesty.
(Jeremiah 22:13, Good News Bible)
Does it make you a better kind if you build houses of cedar, finer than those of others?
(Jeremiah 22:15, Good News Bible)
A beautiful palace does not make a great king.
(Jeremiah 22:15, Living Bible)
“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away? Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill heaven and earth?”
(Jeremiah 23:23-24)
My message is like a fire and like a hammer that breaks rocks in pieces.
(Jeremiah 23:29)
I will give them hearts that respond to me. They shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with great joy.
(Jeremiah 24:7, Living Bible)
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
(Jeremiah 29:13)
I will discipline you but only with justice.
(Jeremiah 30:11)
The Lord’s anger is a storm.
(Jeremiah 30:23, Good News Bible)
Proclaim my words on the far-off shores
(Jeremiah 31:10)
I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them and make them rejoice after their sorrow.
(Jeremiah 31:13)
I have created something new and different.
(Jeremiah 31:22)
I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.
(Jeremiah 31:25)
I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts.
(Jeremiah 31:33)
I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
(Jeremiah 32:26)
I will give them a single purpose I life: to honor me for all time, for their own good and the good of their descendants.
(Jeremiah 32:39)
“Call to me and I will answer you; I will tell you wonderful and marvelous things that you know nothing about.”
(Jeremiah 33:3)
I am the living God.
(Jeremiah 46:18)
When I punish you, I will be fair.
(Jeremiah 46:28)
A curse on him who is lax in doing the Lord’s work!
(Jeremiah 48:10)
Your pride has deceived you.
(Jeremiah 49:16)
My people have been lost sheep.
(Jeremiah 50:6)
I will forgive those people whose lives I have spared.
(Jeremiah 50:20)
Babylonia is a land of terrifying idols that have made fools of the people.
(Jeremiah 50:38, Good News Bible)
Those who make idols are disillusioned because the gods they make are false and lifeless.
(Jeremiah 51:17, Good News Bible)
Though you are far from home, think about me, your Lord.
(Jeremiah 51:50)
The Lord is the God of retribution.
(Jeremiah 51:56)