Bible Verses

 When you see crowds pressing in front and behind to worship them.

 Take care not to imitate what foreigners do, and do not let yourselves be frightened by them.

 In Babylon, you will see gods made of silver, gold, and wood, carried on men’s shoulders and filling the people with fear.

After you arrive there, you will stay for many years—seven generations—but then I will bring you back home in peace.

The Letter of Jeremiah  A copy of the letter, which Jeremiah sent to those who were to be taken captive to Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to let them know what God had ordered him.  The People Face a Long Captivity “Because of your sins against God, Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylonians, will

For God will lead Israel with joy by the light of his glory, guiding them with his mercy and justice.

Even the forests and the fragrant trees will provide shade to Israel at God’s command.

For God has decided to bring down every high mountain and the everlasting hills, to fill the valleys, and to level the ground so that Israel can walk in safety under God’s glory.

They left you on foot, taken away by the enemy. God will lead them back, carried proudly like royal princes.

Rise, Jerusalem, stand on the heights. Look east and see your children gathered from the setting of the sun to its rising, by the voice of the Holy One, rejoicing because God has remembered them.