In Jeremiah, chapter seventeen, verses nineteen through twenty-three, “This said the Lord unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; And say unto them, Hear ye the word of […]
In Jeremiah, chapter seventeen, verses fourteen through eighteen, “Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come now. As for me, I have hastened from being a pastor
In Jeremiah, chapter seventeen, verse nine, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” The heart is the inner being of a person that includes one’s desires, feelings, and thoughts. Above all, it is desperately evil and corrupt; as a result, people turn to selfishness and evil rather than
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In Jeremiah, chapter seventeen, verses five through eight, “Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places
In Jeremiah, chapter seventeen, verse one, “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars.” Jeremiah indicts the nation for its great wickedness. The people’s sin was so deeply etched
In Jeremiah, chapter sixteen, verse nineteen, “O Lord, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.” Jeremiah foresaw a day when
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In Jeremiah, chapter sixteen, verse eighteen, “And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.” “Double” can also mean “equivalent.” God would pay the people back in full for their sin and wickedness.
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In Jeremiah, chapter sixteen, verse fifteen, “But, the Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.” Although the people would be carried away into
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In Jeremiah, chapter sixteen, verses two through ten, certain restrictions were put on Jeremiah’s life and ministry that would serve as object lessons for the people when the hour of judgment arrived. The first restriction was not to marry and have children, illustrating that in the coming affliction, many families would die, as in verses
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In Jeremiah, chapter fifteen, verses nineteen through twenty-one, “Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as thy mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
