Jeremiah
1:4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Jeremiah
1:5 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you and before you came
forth out of the womb I sanctified
you and I ordained you a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah
1:6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak.(*),
for I am a child.
Jeremiah
1:7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child. For you shall
go to all that I shall send you and whatsoever I command you.(how
does the Creator do this?), you shall speak.
Jeremiah
1:8 Be not afraid of their faces. For I am with you to deliver you,
says the LORD.
Jeremiah
1:9 Then the LORD put forth his hand and touched my mouth.(what
came to Jeremiah's mind about how the Creator may help him in this regard).
And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
Jeremiah
1:10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
to root out and to pull down and to destroy and to throw down.(*),
to build and to plant.
Jeremiah
1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their
wickedness, who have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods
and worshipped the works
of their own hands.
Jeremiah
1:19 And they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against
you, for I am with you, says the
LORD, to deliver you.
Jeremiah
2:3 Israel.(who
is Israel
today?).was holiness unto
the LORD and the firstfruits of his increase. All that devour him shall
offend. Evil shall come upon them, says the LORD.
Jeremiah
2:5 Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found
in me, that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and
are become vain?
Jeremiah
2:8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the
law knew me not. The pastors also
transgressed against me and the prophets prophesied by Baal
and walked after things that do not profit.(that
is, are not profitable spiritually).
Jeremiah
2:11 Has a nation changed their
gods, which are yet no gods? But my people have changed their glory
for that which does not profit.(*).
Jeremiah
2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns,
that can hold no water..(they
got into stupid idolatries and made with their hand many
idols to represent gods of other nations they knew of)
Jeremiah
2:19 Your own wickedness shall correct you.(*).and
your backslidings shall reprove
you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that you
have forsaken the LORD your God and that my fear
is not in you, says the Lord
GOD of hosts.
Jeremiah
2:23 How can you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim?
see your way in the valley, know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary
traversing her ways.
Jeremiah
2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel
ashamed; they, their kings, their princes and their priests and their prophets,.(Jeremiah
6:13)
Jeremiah
2:27 Saying to a stock, You are my father.(that
is, 'I believe I came to Earth because of the god this upright wooden idol
I made represents'; they had all sorts of idols they made that they felt
were important in affecting their lives).and
to a stone, You have brought me forth; for they have turned their back
unto me and not their face.(didn't
care about the true
God), but in the time of their trouble they will say,
Arise, and save us.(and
they did this time
and time again, but always later lapsed;
why? they didn't have the heart to be different consistently:.Leviticus
26:3-7).
Jeremiah
2:28 But where are your gods that you have made yourself? Let them
arise,if they can save you in the time of your trouble, for according to
the number of your cities are your gods.(Hosea
4:7), O Judah.
Jeremiah
2:29 Wherefore will you plead with me? You all have transgressed against
me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
2:30 It does no good to correct your children as they won't take correction
and your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.(you
don't listen to anyone alerting you to change).
Jeremiah
2:31 O generation, see you the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness
unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords.
We will come no more unto you?.(Jeremiah
44:16,17)
Jeremiah
2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments or a bride her attire? yet my
people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah
2:33 Why trimmest you your way to seek love?.(you
shape yourself up to appear good in order to be attractive to a mate, but
you're the same old person at heart, seldom realizing that it takes a few
months for each of you to find out what the person you are with is really
like) In doing this therefore have you also taught the wicked
ones your ways.(*).
Jeremiah
3:6,7 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah
the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is
gone up upon every high
mountain and under every green tree
and there hath played the harlot.
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But
she returned not.(this
is why.we.have
the problems we do in life). And her treacherous sister Judah
saw it.
Jeremiah
3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel
committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce;
yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot
also.
Jeremiah 3:9-11 And it came to pass through the
lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land and committed adultery
with stones and with stocks. And yet for all this her treacherous sister
Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith
the LORD. And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified
herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah
3:9-11 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom.(wasn't
a big thing to the people and they didn't care anyway {Jeremiah
44:16,17} that what they were doing was cutting themselves off from
blessings God wanted them to have; such is the ordinary low consciousness
of mankind), that she defiled the land and committed adultery with
stones and with stocks.(they
built altars
out of stones and sticks so they could have something that represented
all
types of gods they gave attention
to and they wanted this because the heart of mankind at its basest, doesn't
want God around:.Jeremiah
44:16,17). And yet for all this her treacherous
sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly,
saith the LORD. And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding
Israel has justified
herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah
3:12,13 Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, Return,
thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD and I will not cause mine anger
to fall upon you, for I am merciful,
saith the LORD and I will not keep anger for ever. Only acknowledge thine
iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God and hast
scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree and ye have
not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah
3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD, for I am married
unto you and I will take you one of a city and two of a family and I will
bring you to Zion.
Jeremiah
3:15 And I will give you pastors
according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge.and
understanding..(1Timothy
2:4; Colossians 1:9,10)
Jeremiah
3:16 And it shall come to pass, when you be multiplied and increased
in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall say no more, The
ark
of the covenant of the LORD. Neither shall it come to mind. Neither
shall they remember it, neither shall they visit it, neither shall that
be done any more.
Jeremiah
3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem
the throne of the LORD
and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD,
to Jerusalem; neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of
their evil heart.(we
are here on Earth to move from the ordinary consciousness of man that has
caused all problems and to the higher consciousness befitting
our saving before the world began:.2Timothy
1:9).
Jeremiah
3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of
Israel and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the
land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
Jeremiah
3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have
you dealt treacherously.(to
act or deal treacherously, faithlessly, deceitfully, offensively).with
me, o house of Israel, says the LORD.
Jeremiah
3:21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications
of the children of Israel.(who
is Israel today?). For they have perverted their way
and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
Jeremiah
3:22-25 Return, you backsliding children and I will heal your backslidings.
Be holding of we come unto you, for you are the LORD our God. Truly in
vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitude of mountains.
Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. For shame has devoured
the labour of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds,
their sons and their daughters. We lie down in our shame and our confusion
covers us, for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers,
from our youth even unto this day and have not obeyed the voice of the
LORD our God.
Jeremiah
4:1-3 If you will return, O Israel,
says the LORD,
return unto me and if you will put away your abominations
out of my sight, then shall you not remove. And you shall swear, The LORD
lives, in truth, in judgment and in righteousness and the nations shall
bless themselves in him
and in him shall they glory. For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah
and Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow
ground and sow
not among thorns..(God
is saying it will go well with them when they return to God)
Jeremiah
4:4.Circumcise
yourselves to the LORD by taking away the foreskins of your heart.(*),
you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my fury come forth
like fire and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your
doings.
Jeremiah
4:9,10 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that
the heart of the king shall perish and the heart of the princes and the
priests shall be astonished and the prophets shall wonder. Then said I,
Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,
saying, You shall have peace, whereas the sword reaches unto the soul.
A better rendering
from the original:."Then
said I, Ah, Lord God! Surely.deceived
are these dimmed (their understanding is darkened,
as they felt they were doing ok:.Proverbs
14:12) people of Jerusalem, saying to
each other, peace (believing in peace),when
the sword touches the soul.".(once
one makes the mistake of accepting fear,
he may
acquiesce
to his fears, thinking life then would continue unabatedly;
example)
Jeremiah
4:11,12 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem,
A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of
my people; not to fan, nor to cleanse, even a full wind from those places
shall come unto me. Now also will I give sentence against them.
Jeremiah
4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your
heart.(doesn't
God
wash our hearts?).from
wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge
within you?
Jeremiah
4:18 Thy way and thy doings.(we
create
your own worlds).have
procured.(original
for 'procured' is 'fashioned').these
things unto you.(?);
this is your wickedness because it is bitter and because it reaches unto
your heart.
Jeremiah
4:22 For my people are foolish.(original
for 'foolish' is 'perverse'),
they have not known me; they are sottish.(living
as a fool, not knowing why they are here
in the first place).children
and they have none understanding. They are wise
to do evil but to do
good they have no knowledge..(they
are not insane, just unsane).
Jeremiah
4:23 I beheld the earth and lo, it was without form and void and the
heavens and they had no light.(Genesis
1:1).
Jeremiah
4:24-31 I beheld the mountains and lo,
they trembled and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld and lo, there was
no man and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld and lo, the
fruitful place was a wilderness and all the cities thereof were broken
down at the presence of the LORD and by his fierce anger. For thus has
the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate, yet will I not make a
full end. For this shall the earth mourn and the heavens above be black.
Because I have spoken it, I have purposed it and will not repent.(change
my mind), neither will I turn back
from it. The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen.
They shall go into thickets and climb up upon the rocks. Every city shall
be forsaken and not a man dwell therein. And when you art spoiled, what
will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you deck yourself
with ornaments of gold, though you rent.(shred).your
face with painting, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers will
despise you, they will seek your life. For I have heard a voice as of a
woman in travail and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first
child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads
her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Jeremiah
5:3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? You have stricken
them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have
refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a
rock. They have refused to return.
Jeremiah
5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor. They
are foolish. For they know not the way of.(Mark
1:2,3).the
LORD, nor the judgment of their God. .(they
know not how the mind of God works nor
care to find out)
Jeremiah
5:5,6 I will get me unto the great men and will speak unto them, for
they have known the way of the LORD and the judgment of their God. But
these have altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds. Wherefore a
lion out of the forest shall slay them and a wolf of the evenings shall
spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities. Every one that goes
out thence shall be torn in pieces because their transgressions are many
and their backslidings are increased.(what
made them increase?).
Jeremiah 5:7,8 How shall
I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by them
that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they then committed
adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. They
were as fed horses in the morning. Every one neighed after his neighbour's
wife.
Jeremiah
5:7,8 How shall I pardon you for this?.(Psalms
135:5).Your
children
have forsaken me and sworn by
them that are no gods.(they
love their video games which have no real impact apart from a false sense
of reality, the ego subsitute for the power in meditation:.Jeremiah
16:19). When I had fed them to the full,
they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the
harlots' houses.(the
more they get, the more they get locked into their low consciousness ego:.Isaiah
1:6,7). They were as fed horses in the
morning. Every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.(original
for 'wife').
Jeremiah
5:9 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD and shall not
my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah
5:10 Go you up upon her walls and destroy, but make not a full end.
Take away her battlements for they are not the LORD'S.
Jeremiah
5:11 For the house of Israel.(who's
that today?).and
the house of Judah.(who's
that today?).have
dealt very treacherously
against me, says the LORD.
Jeremiah
5:12 They have belied
the LORD
and said, It is not he.(they
say and act as though God does not exist),
neither shall evil come upon us and neither shall we see sword nor famine..(we're
ok, who's watching, no one can see what we've done and are doing)
Jeremiah
5:13,14 And the prophets shall become wind and the word is not in them.
Thus shall it be done unto them. Wherefore thus says the LORD God of hosts,
Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth
fire and this people wood and it shall devour them.
Jeremiah
5:15-20.Lo,
I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the LORD.
It is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language
you know not, neither understand what they say. Their quiver is as an open
sepulchre. They are all mighty men. And they shall eat up your harvest
and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They shall
eat up your flocks and your herds. They shall eat up your vines and your
fig trees. They shall impoverish your fenced cities, wherein you trusted,
with the sword. Nevertheless in those days, says the LORD, I will not make
a full end with you. And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Wherefore
does the LORD our God all these things unto us? Then shalt you answer them,
like as you have forsaken me and served strange
gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not
yours. Declare this in the house of
Jacob and publish it in Judah, saying,
Jeremiah
5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people and without understanding, which
have eyes and see not, which have ears and hear not.
Jeremiah
5:22.Fear
you not me? says the LORD. Will you not tremble
at my presence, which has placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a
perpetual.decree,
that it cannot pass it. And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet
can they not prevail.
Though they roar, yet they can not pass over it..(Psalms
135:6; Proverbs 8;29; also,
it's God who sets the
boundaries of nations)
Jeremiah
5:23 But this people has a revolting.(stubborn).and
a rebellious.(contentious;
unkind).heart. They are revolted.(turned
aside).and gone.(walk
away; walk away from any goodness).
Jeremiah
5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our
God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter in his.(its).season.
He reserves unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest..(they
didn't see God active in life affecting them)
Jeremiah
5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins.(what's
the difference between word 'iniquities' and word 'sin'?).have
withholden good things from you.
Jeremiah 5:26-28 For among my people are found
wicked men. They lay wait, as he that set snares. They set a trap. They
catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit.
Therefore they are become great and waxen rich. They are waxen fat, they
shine. Yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked. They judge not the cause,
the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper and the right of the needy
do they not judge.
Jeremiah
5:26-28 For among my people are found wicked men. They lay wait, as
he that set snares. They set a trap. They catch men. As a cage is full
of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they are become
great and waxen rich. They are waxen fat, they shine. Yea, they overpass.(look
the other way so as not to notice).the
deeds of the wicked. They judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless,
yet they prosper.(so
steeped
are they in the ego life they only care of prospering and lack concern
for any whom they may step on in their determination
and because of this they don't understand
spiritual things).and the right
of the needy.(consideration
to help those needing help is not in their heart).do
they not judge.(*).
Jeremiah
5:29 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD. Shall not my
soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah
5:30,31 A wonderful.(original
can also be 'astonishing').and
horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets.prophesy
falsely and the priests bear rule by their means and my people love to
have it so.(Jeremiah
44:15-17).and what will
you do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 6:10 To whom shall I speak and give warning
that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised and they cannot
hearken. Behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach. They have
no delight in it.
Jeremiah
6:10 To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear? Behold,
their ear is uncircumcised.(in
ancient times the 'uncircumcised' referred to those not of physical
Israel who were all physically circumcised;
today it refers
to all those not knowing the Creator).and
they cannot hearken.(why?).
Behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach.
They have no delight in it.(Psalms
1; Jeremiah 9:24).
Jeremiah
6:13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every
one is given to covetousness.(Isaiah
1:4-7; 5:20,21,23).and
from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.(see
'Falsies').
Jeremiah
6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.
They tell untruths
to pacify people's
concerns:.Isaiah
30:10; Deuteronomy 29:19.
Jeremiah
6:15-17 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore
they shall fall among them that fall. At the time that I visit them they
shall be cast down, says the LORD. Thus says the LORD, Stand you in the
ways and see and ask for the old paths, where is the good way and walk
therein and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will
not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the
sound of the trumpet. But they said We will not hearken.(*).
Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth. Behold, I will bring
evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have
not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
Jeremiah
6:19 Hear, O earth. Behold.(take
notice), I will bring evil upon this people.(how
does Creator bring evil?), even the fruit of their thoughts.(Ezekiel
39:28), because they have not hearkened unto my words.(not
at all interested in the things of the spiritual as they were too swept
up in their own lives to even
listen:.Numbers
14:43-45), nor to my law.(what
law is it today?), but rejected it.(we
reject or accept things by what our attention is on).
Just as according
to one's faith it will be unto him, so it is that according to one's evil,
evil comes to him (*).
Mankind is rewarded either way and it's up
to us what we choose.
Jeremiah
6:21 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks
before this people and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon
them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
Jeremiah
6:26 O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth and wallow
yourself in ashes.(learn
humility).
Make your mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the
spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Jeremiah
6:28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders. They are
brass and iron. They are all corrupters.(the
majority).
Jeremiah
7:3-7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend
your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Trust not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of
the LORD, The temple of the LORD.('we
go to church', 'we go to church'), are these. For if you
throughly amend your ways and your doings; if you throughly execute judgment
between a man and his neighbour; If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless
and the widow and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after
other gods to your hurt.(which
they did en masse
{*}),
then will I cause you to dwell in this place in the land that I gave to
your fathers, forever
and ever.
Jeremiah 7:8-10 Behold, you trust in lying words,
that cannot profit. Will you steal, murder and commit adultery and swear
falsely and burn incense unto Baal and walk after other gods whom you know
not, And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my
name and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
Jeremiah
7:8-10 Behold, you trust in lying words.(such
as the beliefs we hold as true that we've never
objectively
checked out to see if they were indeed
true {Acts 17:11} and two of yours
may be 1, 2),
that cannot profit. Will you steal, murder and commit adultery and swear
falsely and burn incense
unto
Baal.(one
of the ancient objects of worship of selfishly evil people).and
walk after other gods whom you know not.(they
experimented; tried out whatever
'gods' came along that others had, in order to be sure they didn't
miss anything as they went along in their selfish pursuits), And
come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name and
say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?.(like
some people believe that if one is under grace, it's ok to do bad things;
silly
are they, not knowing grace
works by actions of love and love causes no negatives at all:.Romans
13:10)
Jeremiah
7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers
in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.
Many, not all,
churches are simply corporations, existing to extract
all they possibly can from you? That's why a corporation is formed, to
profit the corporation and the preferred shareholders of it, often at disregard.(*).for
the rank and
file people who may be affected by it)
Jeremiah
7:12 But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh,
where I set my name at the first and see what I did to it for the wickedness
of my people Israel.
Jeremiah
7:13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD
and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but you heard not and
I called you, but you answered not.
Jeremiah
7:14,15 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my
name, wherein you trust and unto the place which I gave to you and to your
fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. And I will cast you out of my sight,
as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
Jeremiah
7:16 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up cry nor
prayer for them, neither make intercession to me, for I will not hear you.
Jeremiah
7:17,18 See you not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood and the fathers kindle the
fire and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven.(a
Persian and Assyrian deity
{*}).and
to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to
anger.
They just lived
as the societal.environment.dictated
and were away from the spiritual things of the soul.
Jeremiah
7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? says the LORD (original
is 'I get angry, says the Lord'). Do they not provoke.(original
is 'shame').themselves to the
confusion of their own faces?
Jeremiah
7:20,21 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my
fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man and upon beast and upon
the trees of the field and upon the fruit of the ground and it shall burn
and shall not be quenched..(shows
what the Creator thinks of such things) Thus says the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel, Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices
and eat flesh.
Clarke's
Commentary:."I
will receive neither sacrifice nor oblation from you; therefore you may
take the beasts intended for sacrifice, and slay and eat them for your
common nourishment."
Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers,
nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt,
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
Jeremiah
7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day
that I brought them outof the land of Egypt.(*),
concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices..(these
were added later as required under the
Mosaic Law, but sacrifices were done before:.Genesis
31:54; Hebrews 11:4; the people
back then, most of them, had no
heart for the Creator and this was the reason for the flood {Genesis
6:11-17}, but the people soon became the same again:.Jeremiah
44:16,17; the ancient sacrifices and offerings that were added after
they exited from Egypt would
somewhat
direct their minds toward God:.Hebrews
9:9,10; from the beginning of humans on Earth, God wanted a people
to be in love with Him:.Deuteronomy
5:29)
Jeremiah
7:23 But this thing commanded I them,
saying, Obey my voice and I will be your God and you shall be my people
and walk you in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may
be well unto you.
God always
wanted good for people and for people to be good in heart (Deuteronomy
5:29; 7:11-14; Joshua
23:7; Ecclesiastes 8:12; Jeremiah
32:18: Leviticus 19:17;
Exodus
22:21-23; Deuteronomy 6:12-14;
10:18-22),
so what happened,
where
is the good?
Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined
their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil
heart and went backward and not forward.
Jeremiah
7:24 But they hearkened not.(Jeremiah
44:16,17), nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels
and in the imagination of their evil heart.(some
of them way back then were cruel;
an evil heart is one producing that which is not of a high consciousness).and
went backward and not forward.
Jeremiah
7:25-28 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land
of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
daily rising up early and sending them. Yet they hearkened not unto me
nor inclined their ear but hardened their neck.(stubbornness).
They did worse than their fathers. Therefore you speak all these words
unto them but they will not hearken
to you. You also call unto them but they will not answer you. But you shall
say unto them, This is a nation that obeys not the voice of the LORD their
God, nor receives correction. Truth is perished and is cut off from their
mouth.
Jeremiah
7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem
and cast it away and take up a lamentation on high places, for the LORD
has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Jeremiah
7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the
LORD. They have set their abominations in the house which is called by
my name, to pollute it.
Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high places
of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons
and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came
it into my heart.
Jeremiah
7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet,
which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom,
to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire.(so
selfishly evil were they that they would do something like this; Tophet
is from the Hebrew 'toph' meanin 'a drum', because the cries of children
here sacrificed in fire by the priests of Moloch
were drowned by the noise of such an instrument; very sick heads were the
perpetrators
of such things); which I commanded them not, neither came it into
my heart..(verses 30,31
here are repeated in Jeremiah
32:34,35 with some distinctions)
Jeremiah
7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from
the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall
be desolate.
Jeremiah
8:1 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.
Jeremiah
8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all
the host of heaven, whom they have loved and whom they have served and
after whom they have walked and whom they have sought and whom they have
worshipped. They shall not be gathered, nor be buried. They shall be for
dung upon the face of the earth.
Jeremiah
8:3-5 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue
of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places
whither I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts. Moreover you shall
say unto them, Thus says the LORD, Shall they fall and not arise? Shall
he turn away and not return? Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden
back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to
return.
Jeremiah
8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright.
No man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every
one turned to his course as the horse rushes
into the battle.
Jeremiah
8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows 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.
Jeremiah 8:8 How do you 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.
Jeremiah
8:8 How do you say, We are wise and the law of the LORD is with us?.(the
height of selfish living is a feeling of correctness {Proverbs
14:12} in doing anything one pleases, even if it may have negative.consequences
for others).Lo, certainly in
vain made he it.(they
feel spiritual ways are useless). The pen of the scribes is in vain.(what
good did it do for them to write down all the things that would help make
all in the world better?).
Jeremiah
8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken. Lo, they
have rejected the word of the LORD. What wisdom is in them?.(1Corinthians
1:27)
Jeremiah
8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others and their fields
to them that shall inherit them. For every one from the least even unto
the greatest is given to covetousness,
from the prophet
even unto the priest everyone deals falsely..(why?
to get anything for greed and self)
Jeremiah
8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace when there is no peace..(they
lie to placate
the people:.Isaiah
30:10)
Jeremiah
8:12 Were they ashamed
when they had committed abomination?
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush.(they
couldn't blush
because of zeal
for shameful.selfish.pursuits);
an example of this was Benhadad:.1Kings
20:5,6), therefore shall they fall among them that fall.
In the time of their visitation.(*).they
shall be cast down, says the LORD.
Jeremiah
8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came and for a time of health
and behold trouble!
Jeremiah
8:22 Is there no balm
in Gilead? Is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the
daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah
9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring
men that I might leave my people and go from them! For they be all adulterers,
an assembly of treacherous men..(ever
feel like you just want to get away from it all?)
Jeremiah
9:3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies.(they
take great effort to make their lies appear valid),
but they are not valiant
for the truth upon the earth, for they proceed from evil to evil.(all
they have is from what they have known and what they have known is low
consciousness life).and
they know not me.(because
they don't want to know God {*}
and that because they are at their base,
selfish)
Jeremiah
9:4 Take you heed
every one of his neighbour and trust you not in any brother, for every
brother will supplant
and every neighbour walks with slanderers.
Jeremiah
9:5,6 And they will deceive every one his neighbour and will not speak
the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies and they weary
themselves to commit iniquity.
Their habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse
to know me, says the LORD.
Jeremiah
9:7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will
melt them and try them, for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Jeremiah
9:8,9 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out. It speaks deceit. One speaks
peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait.
Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD. Shall not my soul
be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah
9:13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I
set before them and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
Jeremiah
9:14 But have walked after the
imagination of their own heart and after Baalim,
which their fathers taught them.
Jeremiah
9:15,16 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood.(Deuteronomy
29:18).and give them water
of gall to drink. I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither
they nor their fathers have known and I will send a sword after them, till
I have consumed them.
Jeremiah
9:24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and
knows me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment and
righteousness in the earth, for in these things I
delight, saith the LORD.