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But now I ask you, lady (not as if I were writing a new commandment to you, but the one we have had from the beginning), that we love one another. Verse ConceptsBrotherly LoveChrist's OrdersLove Fellow Christians!Loving One Another

By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep when we remember Zion. On the poplars in her midst we hang our harps, for there our captors ask us to compose songs; those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying: "Sing for us a song about Zion!" read more.
How can we sing a song to the Lord in a foreign land? If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled! May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, and do not give Jerusalem priority over whatever gives me the most joy.

Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.


For the sake of the temple of the Lord our God I will pray for you to prosper. Verse ConceptsFor The Sake Of ThingsGood Activity

May the Lord bless you from Zion, that you might see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life, and that you might see your grandchildren. May Israel experience peace!

So I say: "Don't look at me! I am weeping bitterly. Don't try to console me concerning the destruction of my defenseless people." Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelSorrowNo Comfort

Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt; you will reestablish the ancient foundations. You will be called, 'The one who repairs broken walls, the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.' Verse ConceptsRuinsWallsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingbridgesrebuilding

"For the sake of Zion I will not be silent; for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines brightly and her deliverance burns like a torch." Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelRadiancySilenceGod's Salvation Made KnownSalvation, Illustrations OfFervourZealousness, Examples OfRadiant LivesThe SunGod Being SilentA Righteous PeopleFor The Sake Of God's Peoplezionvindication

I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the Lord, don't be silent! Don't allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

Be happy for Jerusalem and rejoice with her, all you who love her! Share in her great joy, all you who have mourned over her! Verse ConceptsLoving God's Things

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As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem." When you see this, you will be happy, and you will be revived. The Lord will reveal his power to his servants and his anger to his enemies.

I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed. Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightFountainsEyes, Figurative UseBeing Earnest For IsraelNightSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfTearsMetaphorical SpringsMourning DeathFountains Used Figuratively

"Tell these people this, Jeremiah: 'My eyes overflow with tears day and night without ceasing. For my people, my dear children, have suffered a crushing blow. They have suffered a serious wound. Verse ConceptsdaughtersAffliction Day And NightNightI Mourn Catastrophe

You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the Lord in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem. We are ashamed because we have been insulted. Our faces show our disgrace. For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the Lord's temple.'

(Kaf) My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares. Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingIntestinesTearsFaintingEyes HarmedTragedy On The StreetsYoung People SufferingI Am Sufferingknots

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. (Ayin) Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no break until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened. read more.
What my eyes see grieves me -- all the suffering of the daughters in my city.


By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.


I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them." Verse ConceptsDeath, Preparation ForThoughtfulnessAcquiring Wisdomfate

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever. Verse ConceptsFear Of The LordPenitentReceptive HeartsFear God!Keep The Commandments!

[[EMPTY]] What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. read more.
In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.



How blessed is the one whom you choose, and allow to live in your palace courts. May we be satisfied with the good things of your house -- your holy palace. Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofChoicesdrawing near to GodAccess To God, The Characteristics OfApproaching GodPlenty Through GodBlessed Through GodWe Live With GodGoodness

Now, to show my commitment to the temple of my God, I donate my personal treasure of gold and silver to the temple of my God, in addition to all that I have already supplied for this holy temple. Verse ConceptsDonationsAffectionconstruction

O Lord, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed. Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of GodHousesGod's DwellingThose Loving God

I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord's temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God. Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfHeart, And Holy SpiritRenewed HeartPassionThe SoulLiving For GodsoulHeartfelt Prayer To God

Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked. Verse ConceptsDoorkeepersDoorsProperty, HousesTentsEvil AssociationsOne DayPresented At The DoorwayWe Live With GodDaysgaysBeing GayHaving A Good Daywickedness

The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God." Verse ConceptsOilNeglecting God's Things

A song of ascents, by David. I was glad because they said to me, "We will go to the Lord's temple." Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceProperty, HousesSongsUnityWorshiping TogetherGoing To Church

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