In Jeremiah, chapter eleven, verse three, “And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant.” God’s people of His chosen nation had made a covenant with Him, promising to obey Him as their Lord and God. In return, He would […]
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In Jeremiah, chapter ten, verse twenty-five, “Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.” Jeremiah prays that the invaders who had so cruelly preyed
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In Jeremiah, chapter ten, verses seventeen through twenty-two, beginning with verse seventeen, “Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.” The invasions of the Babylonians was so imminent, and the accompanying disaster so real to Jeremiah that he would utter words of lament so that the people would wail in
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In Jeremiah, chapter ten, verses two through sixteen, due to the threat of the Babylonian invasion, the people turned themselves over severely to idols and to the astrology and spiritism of the surrounding nations. Jeremiah warns the people against such action, declaring that the Lord God is the one true God who created all things,
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In Jeremiah, chapter nine, verse twenty-four, “But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.” Believers must not boast in worldly knowledge, human abilities, and worldly riches,
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In Jeremiah, chapter nine, verses one to twenty-six, beginning from the first verse, “Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!” Jeremiah continues to express his anguish over God’s rebellious people and their refusal
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In Jeremiah, chapter eight, verses eighteen through twenty-two, ” When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.” These words reveal the prophet’s profound grief over the sin and the destruction of God’s people. He is torn by his loyalty to God and his deep ties to the people; he is
In Jeremiah, chapter eight, verse twelve, “Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.” The people had reached a stage of apostasy
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In Jeremiah, chapter eight, verse seven, “Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.” The people were ignorant of God’s law. Moreover, their leaders so distorted the Word
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In Jeremiah, chapter eight, verses one to two, “At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
