One Year Chronological Bible Sampler - Flipbook - Page 182
JULY 31
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whose speech you cannot understand.
Their weapons are deadly;
their warriors are mighty.
They will devour the food of your harvest;
they will devour your sons and daughters.
They will devour your flocks and herds;
they will devour your grapes and figs.
And they will destroy your fortified towns,
which you think are so safe.
“Yet even in those days I will not blot you out completely,” says the LORD.
“And when your people ask, ‘Why did the LORD our God do all this to us?’ you
must reply, ‘You rejected him and gave yourselves to foreign gods in your own
land. Now you will serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’ ”
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A Warning for God’s People / Jeremiah 5:20-31
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“Make this announcement to Israel,*
and say this to Judah:
Listen, you foolish and senseless people,
with eyes that do not see
and ears that do not hear.
Have you no respect for me?
Why don’t you tremble in my presence?
I, the LORD, define the ocean’s sandy shoreline
as an everlasting boundary that the waters cannot cross.
The waves may toss and roar,
but they can never pass the boundaries I set.
But my people have stubborn and rebellious hearts.
They have turned away and abandoned me.
They do not say from the heart,
‘Let us live in awe of the LORD our God,
for he gives us rain each spring and fall,
assuring us of a harvest when the time is right.’
Your wickedness has deprived you of these
wonderful blessings.
Your sin has robbed you of all these good things.
“Among my people are wicked men
who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind.
They continually set traps
to catch people.
Like a cage filled with birds,
their homes are filled with evil plots.
And now they are great and rich.
They are fat and sleek,
5:20 Hebrew to the house of Jacob. The names “Jacob” and “Israel” are often interchanged throughout the Old Testament,
referring sometimes to the individual patriarch and sometimes to the nation.
