Judah’s Sin and Punishment
“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. Ezk 6:51Ki 13:22Ch 34:4-52Ki 23:162Ki 23:20Amo 2:1Ezk 37:1Jer 7:32-34 They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground. 2Ki 23:5Deu 4:19Act 7:42Jer 9:22Zep 1:52Ki 21:3Ezk 8:16Jer 16:4 And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts. Rev 9:6Jer 29:14Jer 23:3Jer 23:8Deu 30:4Job 7:15-16Dan 9:7Deu 30:1
So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: Pro 24:16Mic 7:8Hos 6:1Isa 55:7Jer 3:1Amo 5:2Ezk 18:23Hos 14:1
“Do men fall and not get up again?
Does one turn away and not return?
Why then have these people turned away? Jer 9:6Jer 5:3Zec 7:11Heb 12:25Hos 11:7Jhn 5:402Th 2:9-12Isa 30:10
Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;
they refuse to return.
I have listened and heard; Psa 14:2Ezk 18:282Pe 3:9Isa 30:18Luk 15:17-19Jer 5:1Job 39:19-25Mal 3:16
they do not speak what is right.
No one repents of his wickedness,
asking, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone has pursued his own course
like a horse charging into battle.
Even the stork in the sky Isa 1:3Jer 5:4-5Isa 5:12Pro 6:6-8Sng 2:12
knows her appointed seasons.
The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush 1
keep their time of migration,
but My people do not know
the requirements of the LORD.
How can you say, ‘We are wise, Isa 10:1-2Jhn 9:41Job 5:12-131Co 3:18-20Mat 15:6Rom 1:22Job 12:20Psa 147:19
and the Law of the LORD is with us,’
when in fact the lying pen of the scribes
has produced a deception?
The wise will be put to shame; Psa 119:98-100Jer 6:15Job 5:121Co 1:18-29Deu 4:6Isa 19:11Jer 6:19Psa 19:7
they will be dismayed and trapped.
Since they have rejected the word of the LORD,
what wisdom do they really have?
Therefore I will give their wives to other men Jer 6:12-13Ezk 33:31Amo 5:11Deu 28:30-32Ezk 22:27-28Isa 28:7Isa 56:10-12Jer 23:11-17
and their fields to new owners.
For from the least of them to the greatest,
all are greedy for gain;
from prophet to priest,
all practice deceit.
They dress the wound of the daughter of My people Jer 6:14Ezk 13:10-161Ki 22:131Ki 22:6Jer 14:14-15Jer 27:9-10Jer 28:3-9Lam 2:14
with very little care,
saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
when there is no peace at all.
Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? Jer 3:3Deu 32:35Isa 3:9Jer 6:15Psa 52:7Psa 52:1Zep 3:5Ezk 22:25-31
No, they have no shame at all;
they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
when I punish them, they will collapse,
says the LORD.
I will take away their harvest, Mat 21:19Jol 1:7Jer 17:8Psa 1:3-4Hag 2:17Deu 28:39-42Ezk 22:19-21Ezk 24:3-11
declares the LORD.
There will be no grapes on the vine,
nor figs on the tree,
and even the leaf will wither.
Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
The People Respond
Why are we just sitting here? Jer 23:15Jer 9:15Jer 35:11Lam 3:19Psa 69:212Sa 20:6Deu 29:18Deu 32:32
Gather together,
let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there,
for the LORD our God has doomed us.
He has given us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against the LORD.
We hoped for peace, Jer 14:191Th 5:3Mic 1:12Jer 4:10Jer 8:11
but no good has come,
for a time of healing,
but there was only terror.
The snorting of enemy horses 1Co 10:28Jdg 18:29Jdg 5:22Jer 4:15-161Co 10:26Hab 3:10Jdg 20:1Jer 10:25
is heard from Dan.
At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds,
the whole land quakes.
They come to devour the land and everything in it,
the city and all who dwell in it.
“For behold, I will send snakes among you, Ecc 10:11Psa 58:4-5Deu 32:24Isa 14:29Num 21:6Amo 5:19Amo 9:3Rev 9:19
vipers that cannot be charmed,
and they will bite you,”
declares the LORD.
Jeremiah Weeps for His People
My sorrow is beyond healing; 2 Isa 22:4Jer 6:24Lam 1:16-17Lam 5:17Dan 10:16-17Hab 3:16Jer 10:19-22Job 7:13-14
my heart is faint within me.
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people Isa 39:3Isa 13:5Rev 2:1Deu 32:16-21Isa 12:6Isa 33:22Isa 52:1Jer 14:19
from a land far away:
“Is the LORD no longer in Zion?
Is her King no longer there?”
“Why have they provoked Me to anger
with their carved images,
with their worthless foreign idols?”
“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, Luk 13:25Mat 25:1-12Pro 10:5Luk 19:44Heb 3:7-15
but we have not been saved.”
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. Jer 14:17Jol 2:6Nam 2:10Psa 137:3-6Sng 1:5-6Jer 4:19Jer 9:1Luk 19:41
I mourn; horror has gripped me.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Jer 46:11Gen 37:25Jer 51:8Jer 30:12-17Luk 8:43Luk 5:31-32Gen 43:11Isa 1:5-6
Is no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?