Jeremiah 7-8
Chapter 7: Repent!
Jeremiah
told to stand at the temple gates and order those entering to repent. The Lord says
that the temple has “…become a den of robbers...” (Jeremiah 7:11). The people have
rejected the prophets and reject their words, the words of God. The
Lord will do to the temple what he did to Shiloh. The people perform offerings
in an unacceptable foreign manner. There are high places in Judah. The voice of
mirth shall go from Judah and Jerusalem.
Chapter 8: Calamities shall fall on Jerusalem
The bones of the
kings, princes and priests of Judah shall be exhumed and left for dung upon the
face of the earth. “Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed time; and the
turtle and the crne and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my
people know not the judgement of the Lord.” (Jeremiah 8:7) The land
will become barren. The people will proclaim that they are wise but the Lord
questions this; “How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo,
certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain… they have
rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?” (Jeremiah 8:8-9) Serpents
and cockatrices shall bite.
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