Weeping in Jerusalem

Weeping in Jerusalem

This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: 

“Consider all this, and call for the mourners. 

Send for the women who mourn at funerals. 

Quick! Begin your weeping! 

Let the tears flow from your eyes. 

Hear the people of Jerusalem crying in despair, ‘We are ruined! We are completely humiliated! …We must leave our land, because our homes have been torn down.’ ” 

Listen, you women, to the words of the Lord; open your ears to what He has to say. Teach your daughters to wail; teach one another how to lament. For death has crept in through our windows and has entered our mansions. 

It has killed off the flower of our youth: children no longer play in the streets, and young men no longer gather in the squares. 

This is what the Lord says: 

“Bodies will be scattered across the fields like clumps of manure, 
like bundles of grain after the harvest. 

No one will be left to bury them.” 

This is what the Lord says: 

“Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches. 

But those who wish to boast should boast in this alone: that they truly know Me and understand that I am the Lord who demonstrates unfailing love and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth, and that I delight in these things. 

I, the Lord, have spoken! 

(PAUSE)


“A time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will punish all those who are circumcised in body but not in spirit… and like all the pagan nations, the people of (God) also have uncircumcised hearts.” 

Jeremiah 9:17–26 (NLT)

Praise be to God!


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