Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+004       Lamentations 4 (ESV) 11 The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations. 12 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+003       Lamentations 3 (ESV) 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. 21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+002       Lamentations 2 (ESV) 11 My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city. 12 They cry to their mothers, “Where is…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+001       LAMENTATIONS   INTRODUCTION When the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem and deported much of its population, some residents were left behind in terrible conditions in and around the shattered city. To express their deep shame and grief over the destruction of their home, they wrote songs about its…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+052       Jeremiah 52 (ESV) 28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+051       Jeremiah 51 (ESV) 59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. 60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+050       Jeremiah 50 (ESV) 17 “Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones. 18 Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+049       Jeremiah 49 (ESV) 1 Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+048       Jeremiah 48 (ESV) 1 Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down; 2     the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+042       Jeremiah 42 (ESV) 1 Then all the commanders of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near 2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for…