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Our scripture today is Lamentations 2:6 (NIV). He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The Lord has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest. It is hard to read about God allowing the …
Our scripture today is Lamentations 1:3 (NIV). After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress. As we have seen, God allows His people to “dwell among the nations”, that is, …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 52:12-13 (MEV). Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard who served the king of Babylon came into Jerusalem, and burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 33:8 (MEV). I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against Me. And I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned and whereby they have transgressed against Me. God sends a message of hope to mitigate our disobedience. He promises a way for us …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 10:10 (MEV). But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and an everlasting King. At His wrath the earth trembles, and the nations cannot endure His indignation. While Jeremiah may weep over the peoples’ failure, he also brings the unfiltered truth: the God of creation can …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 8:6 (MEV). I listened and heard, but they did not speak what is right. No man repented of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle. Jeremiah gives us a lesson that is repeated several times in scripture -“everyone …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 7:11 (MEV). Has 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. Jesus quotes this verse and Isaiah 56:7 when He says in Matthew 21:13 “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 5:3 (MEV). O Lord, are not Your 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 is sometimes known as …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 1:5 (ESV). Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah receives his call from God in this verse, becoming a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah. He is perhaps not …
Our scripture this morning is Isaiah 65:17 (ESV). For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. In John’s vision from Revelation 21:1 we read “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first …