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 bread and wine?” […]

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 desolation and about […]

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 of the Judeans […]

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 upon Babylon, all these […]

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 punished the king […]