The World English Bible (WEB): Jeremiah
Jeremiah prophesied in Judah during the final decades before the nation fell to Babylon. Called by God as a young man, he delivered warnings no one wanted to hear. The book captures his anguish as a prophet who loved his people but could not save them from the consequences of their choices. This is not comfortable reading. Jeremiah witnesses the collapse of everything he holds sacred, the Temple, the monarchy, the covenant. He weeps in public, is mocked, beaten, imprisoned. Yet through the darkness comes an unexpected hope: the promise of a new covenant, written not on stone but on human hearts. The prose veers into poetry, especially in the famous Lamentations that follow, where grief becomes almost unbearable in its honesty. For readers willing to sit with discomfort, Jeremiah offers something rare: a window into what it costs to speak truth to power, and whether hope can survive the ruin of everything you love.
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“Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.””
— Anonymous
“I believe in happy endings,” I tell him. “And it feels like this movie has gone on forthe right amount of time.”“Movie?” Dr. Patel says, and I think he would look exactly like Gandhi if he had thosewire-rim glasses and a shaved head, which is weird, especially since we are in leatherrecliners in such a bright, happy room and well, Gandhi is dead, right?“Yeah,” I say. “Haven’t you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?””
— Anonymous
“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.””
— Anonymous
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.””
— Anonymous
“Blessed are the peacemakers:for they shall be called the children of God.””
— Anonymous
“To you, Pharisees, teachers of law, hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices and mint. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law”
— Anonymous
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.””
— Anonymous
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.””
— Anonymous
“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.””
— Anonymous
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