Jeremiah

Question 1

Jeremiah 10:23-24 (NIV)

Answer 1

I know, O LORD, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps. Correct me, LORD, but only with justice– not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.

Question 2

Jeremiah 12:5 NASB

Answer 2

“If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, Then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, How will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?

Question 3

Jeremiah 15:16 NASB

Answer 3

Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.

Question 4

Jeremiah 17:5, 6 NASB

Answer 4

Thus says the LORD, “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind And makes flesh his strength, And whose heart turns away from the LORD. “For he will be like a bush in the desert And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, A land of salt without inhabitant.

Question 5

Jeremiah 17:7, 8 NASB

Answer 5

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD And whose trust is the LORD. “For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor cease to yield fruit.

Question 6

Jeremiah 17:9 NASB

Answer 6

“The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

Question 7

Jeremiah 23:29 NASB

Answer 7

“Is not My word like fire?” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?

Question 8

Jeremiah 29:11 NASB

Answer 8

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Question 9

Jeremiah 29:13 NASB

Answer 9

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Question 10

Jeremiah 9:23, 24 NASB

Answer 10

Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.