Study the Basic English Bible in 1 year

287 : Basic English : Jeremiah 5,6; Ephesians 5 1. Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
2. And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
3. O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
4. Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
5. I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
; AB church Lausanne

286 : Basic English : Jeremiah 3,4; Ephesians 4 1. They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.
2. Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.
3. So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
4. Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?
5. Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.
; AB church Lausanne

285 : Basic English : Jeremiah 1,2; Ephesians 3 1. The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
2. To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.
3. And it came again in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; till Jerusalem was taken away in the fifth month.
4. Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5. Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.
; AB church Lausanne

284 : Basic English : Isaiah 64,65,66; Ephesians 2 1. O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you,
2. As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;
3. While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.
4. The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.
5. Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.
; AB church Lausanne

283 : Basic English : Isaiah 61,62,63; Ephesians 1 1. The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
2. To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;
3. To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
4. And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.
5. And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.
; AB church Lausanne