Jeremiah 8
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Jeremiah 8
1 #
Ezek 6.5
At that time, says the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs, 2#Jer 22.19; Acts 7.42and they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have followed, and which they have inquired of and worshiped, and they shall not be gathered or buried; they shall be like dung on the surface of the ground. 3#Job 3.21; 7.15, 16; Jer 23.3, 8; Rev 9.6Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, says the Lord of hosts.
The Blind Perversity of the Whole Nation
4 #
Prov 24.16
You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
When people fall, do they not get up again?
If they go astray, do they not turn back?
5 #
Jer 5.6, 27; 7.24; 9.6 Why then has this people#8.5 Heb ms Gk: MT this people, Jerusalem, turned away
in perpetual faithlessness?
They have held fast to deceit;
they have refused to return.
6 #
Job 39.21–25; Ps 14.2; Ezek 22.30; Rev 9.20 I have given heed and listened,
but they do not speak honestly;
no one repents of wickedness,
saying, “What have I done!”
All of them turn to their own course
like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
7 #
Song 2.12; Isa 1.3; Jer 5.4, 5 Even the stork in the heavens
knows its times,
and the turtledove, swallow, and crane#8.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
observe the time of their coming,
but my people do not know
the ordinance of the Lord.
8 #
Jer 4.22; Rom 2.17 How can you say, “We are wise,
and the law of the Lord is with us,”
when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes
has made it into a lie?
9 #
Jer 6.15, 19 The wise shall be put to shame;
they shall be dismayed and taken;
since they have rejected the word of the Lord,
what wisdom is in them?
10 #
Deut 28.30; Isa 56.11 Therefore I will give their wives to others
and their fields to conquerors,
because from the least to the greatest
everyone is greedy for unjust gain;
from prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.
11 #
Jer 6.14; Ezek 13.10 They have treated the wound of the daughter of my people carelessly,
saying, “Peace, peace,”
when there is no peace.
12 #
Jer 3.3; 6.21; 10.15 They acted shamefully; they committed abomination,
yet they were not at all ashamed;
they did not know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
at the time when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.
13 #
Isa 5.2; Jer 14.12; Ezek 22.20, 21; Joel 1.7; Mt 21.19 I will surely gather them,#8.13 Or make an end to them says the Lord;
there are no grapes on the vine
nor figs on the fig tree;
even the leaves are withered,
and what I gave them has passed away from them.#8.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
14 #
Jer 3.25; 4.5; 9.15; 14.20; 35.11; Mt 27.34 Why do we sit still?
Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
and has given us poisoned water to drink
because we have sinned against the Lord.
15 #
Jer 14.19
We look for peace but find no good,
for a time of healing, but there is terror instead.
16 #
Judg 5.22; Jer 3.24; 4.15; 10.25 The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan;
at the sound of the neighing of their stallions
the whole land quakes.
They come and devour the land and all that fills it,
the city and those who live in it.
17 #
Num 21.6; Ps 58.4, 5 See, I am letting snakes loose among you,
adders that cannot be charmed,
and they shall bite you, says the Lord.
The Prophet Mourns for the People
18My joy is gone; grief is upon me;
my heart is sick.
19 #
Deut 32.21; Ps 31.6; Isa 39.3; Jer 4.16; 14.19 Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people
from far and wide in the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
Is her King not in her?”
(“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images,
with their foreign idols?”)
20“The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not saved.”
21 #
Jer 14.17; Joel 2.6; Nah 2.10 For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken,
I mourn, and horror has seized me.
22 #
Gen 37.25; Jer 14.19; 30.13 Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?
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