Bible passages

Baruch 4:9–16

Jerusalem Mourns Her Captive Children

Hear a mother-city ask her neighbours to notice her loss.

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Baruch 4:17–20

A Grieving City Keeps Calling to God

Listen for hope spoken by someone who cannot provide the rescue herself.

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Baruch 4:21–29

Take Courage and Seek God Again

Notice how the call to courage is repeated around a call to return.

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Baruch 4:30–35

Comfort for Jerusalem, Mourning for Her Oppressor

Watch what happens to joy that depends on another city’s ruin.

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Baruch 4:36–5:9

Jerusalem Looks for Her Children’s Return

Imagine a city looking out to see its people coming home.

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Baruch 6:1–7

A Letter for a Long Stay in Babylon

Think about what a letter can help people remember in an unfamiliar place.

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Baruch 6:8–16

A Golden Crown Cannot Make an Image Speak

Compare the impressive things added to an image with what it can actually do.

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Baruch 6:17–23

Locked Temples and Images That Cannot See

Notice the small details the writer uses to test a large claim.

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Baruch 6:24–29

Expensive Images and Neglected People

Notice who receives the offerings and who is left without help.

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Baruch 6:30–39

Images Cannot Answer the People Who Need Help

Look at the people in need who appear near the end of this argument.

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Baruch 6:40–44

A Repeated Question about Bel and False Rites

Watch how a repeated question surrounds two troubling examples.

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Baruch 6:45–52

Made in a Workshop, Hidden in a Crisis

Follow the argument from the workshop to a moment of danger.

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Baruch 6:53–59

A Door Can Do More Than a False God

Notice why the writer compares an idol with an ordinary door.

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Baruch 6:60–65

Sun, Wind and Clouds Do Their Work

Compare the moving world outside with the images the writer challenges.

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Baruch 6:66–69

No Power over Kings, Light or Shelter

Look at three very different tests in this short argument.

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Baruch 6:70–73

A Scarecrow, Rotting Purple and a Just Person

Notice why a fine purple covering does not settle the writer’s question.

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Ezekiel 1:1–3

Ezekiel Sees a Vision beside the River

Use the opening details to place a remarkable experience.

Ezekiel 1:4–14

Four Living Creatures in Fire and Light

Pay attention to the words “like” and “appearance” in an unusual vision.

Ezekiel 1:15–21

Wheels That Move with the Living Creatures

Follow what happens whenever the creatures move, stop or rise.

Ezekiel 1:22–28

Above the Creatures, a Throne-Like Sight

Let your attention move upward through the vision.

Ezekiel 2:1–10

Ezekiel Is Sent with a Sorrowful Scroll

Notice that the messenger must listen before he speaks.

Ezekiel 3:1–15

A Sweet Scroll and Seven Overwhelmed Days

Notice the sweet taste, hard resistance and final silence.

Ezekiel 3:16–27

Ezekiel Must Give the Warning

Separate the duty to give a warning from the choice to heed it.

Ezekiel 4:1–8

Jerusalem on a Tile and Days for Years

Read an acted message without trying to perform its hardship.