Bible Topics for Kids
JEREMIAH, 5. The prophet
Jeremiah 4:14-18
14. Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
15. For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
16. "Tell the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, 'Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
17. As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,'" says The LORD.
18. "Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."
Jeremiah 8:18-21
18. Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow!My heart is faint within me.
19. Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off:"Isn't the LORD in Zion?Isn't her King in her?""Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images,and with foreign idols?"
20. "The harvest is past.The summer has ended,and we are not saved."
21. For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt.I mourn.Dismay has taken hold of me.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters,and my eyes a spring of tears,that I might weep day and nightfor the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 10:19-22
19. Woe is me because of my injury!My wound is serious;but I said,"Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it."
20. My tent has been destroyed,and all my cords are broken.My children have gone away from me, and they are no more.There is no one to spread my tent any more,to set up my curtains.
21. For the shepherds have become brutish,and have not inquired of The LORD.Therefore they have not prospered,and all their flocks have scattered.
22. The voice of news, behold, it comes,and a great commotion out of the north country,to make the cities of Judah a desolation,a dwelling place of jackals.