Question:
What classical expressions has Jeremiah given?
Answer:
They should bandage the wounds my people have suffered, but they treat their wounds like small scratches. They say, “It’s all right, everything is all right.” But it is not all right!
Jeremiah 8:11 Easy-to-Read Version
A black man cannot change the color of his skin,
and a leopard cannot change its spots.
In the same way, Jerusalem, you cannot change and do good.
You always do bad things.
Jeremiah 13:23 Easy-to-Read Version
Before he showed me this, I was like a gentle lamb waiting to be butchered. I did not understand that they were against me. They were saying this about me: “Let us destroy the tree and its fruit! Let us kill him! Then people will forget him.”
Jeremiah 11:19 Easy-to-Read Version
“People will not use this saying anymore: ‘The parents ate the sour grapes, but the children got the sour taste.’
Jeremiah 31:29 Easy-to-Read Version
Surely there is some medicine in Gilead. Surely there is a doctor in Gilead. So why are the wounds of my people not healed?
Jeremiah 8:22 Easy-to-Read Version
This is what you should say: “The Lord says, ‘Dead bodies will lie in the fields like dung. Their bodies will lie on the ground like grain a farmer has cut. But there will be no one to gather them.’
” Jeremiah 9:22 Easy-to-Read Version
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