“At that time,” declares the LORD, “they will abring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.Ezek 6:5 2 They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the ahost of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered bor buried; cthey will be as dung on the face of the ground.2 Kin 23:5; Jer 19:13; Zeph 1:5; Acts 7:42Jer 22:19; 36:302 Kin 9:37; Ps 83:10; Jer 9:22 3 And adeath will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the bplaces to which I have driven them,” declares the LORD of hosts.Job 3:21, 22; 7:15, 16; Jon 4:3; Rev 9:6Deut 30:1, 4; Jer 23:3, 8; 29:14 4 “You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD,“Do men afall and not get up again?Does one turn away and not 1repent?Lit turn backProv 24:16; Amos 5:2; Mic 7:8
The Sin and Treachery of Judah
5 “Why then has this people, Jerusalem,aTurned away in continual apostasy?They bhold fast to deceit,They crefuse to return.Jer 5:6; 7:24Jer 5:27; 9:6Jer 5:36 “I ahave listened and heard,They have spoken what is not right;bNo man repented of his wickedness,Saying, ‘What have I done?’Everyone turned to his course,Like a chorse charging into the battle.Ps 14:2; Mal 3:16Ezek 22:30; Mic 7:2; Rev 9:20Job 39:21-257 “Even the stork in the skyaKnows her seasons;And the bturtledove and the swift and the thrushObserve the time of their 1migration;But cMy people do not knowThe ordinance of the LORD.Lit comingProv 6:6-8; Is 1:3Song 2:12Jer 5:4
8 “aHow can you say, ‘We are wise,And the law of the LORD is with us’?But behold, the lying pen of the scribesHas made it into a lie.Job 5:12, 13; Jer 4:22; Rom 1:229 “The wise men are aput to shame,They are dismayed and caught;Behold, they have brejected the word of the LORD,And what kind of wisdom do they have?Is 19:11; Jer 6:15; 1 Cor 1:27Jer 6:1910 “Therefore I will agive their wives to others,Their fields to 1new owners;Because from the least even to the greatestEveryone is bgreedy for gain;From the prophet even to the priestEveryone practices deceit.Lit possessing onesDeut 28:30; Jer 6:12, 13; 38:22fIs 56:11; 57:17; Jer 6:1311 “They aheal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially,Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’But there is no peace.Jer 6:14; 14:13, 14; Lam 2:14; Ezek 13:1012 “Were they aashamed because of the abomination they had done?They certainly were not ashamed,And they did not know how to blush;Therefore they shall bfall among those who fall;At the ctime of their punishment they shall be brought down,”Says the LORD.Ps 52:1, 7; Is 3:9; Jer 3:3; 6:15; Zeph 3:5Is 9:14; Jer 6:21; Hos 4:5Deut 32:35; Jer 10:15
13 “I will asurely snatch them away,” declares the LORD;“There will be bno grapes on the vineAnd cno figs on the fig tree,And the leaf will wither;And what I have given them will pass away.”’”Jer 14:12; Ezek 22:20, 21Jer 5:17; 7:20; Joel 1:7Matt 21:19; Luke 13:614 Why are we sitting still?aAssemble yourselves, and let us bgo into the fortified citiesAnd let us perish there,Because the LORD our God has doomed usAnd given us cpoisoned water to drink,For dwe have sinned against the LORD.Jer 4:52 Sam 20:6; Jer 35:11Deut 29:18; Ps 69:21; Jer 9:15; 23:15; Lam 3:19; Matt 27:34Jer 3:25; 14:2015 We awaited for peace, but no good came;For a time of healing, but behold, terror!Jer 8:11; 14:1916 From aDan is heard the snorting of his horses;At the sound of the neighing of his bstallionsThe whole land quakes;For they come and cdevour the land and its fullness,The city and its inhabitants.Judg 18:29; Jer 4:15Judg 5:22Jer 3:24; 10:2517 “For behold, I am asending serpents against you,Adders, for which there is bno charm,And they will bite you,” declares the LORD.Num 21:6; Deut 32:24Ps 58:4, 5
18 1My asorrow is beyond healing,My bheart is faint within me!So Gr and versionsIs 22:4; Lam 1:16, 17Jer 23:9; Lam 5:1719 Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a adistant land:“Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”“Why have they bprovoked Me with their graven images, with foreign 1cidols?”Lit vanitiesIs 13:5; 39:3; Jer 4:16; 9:16Deut 32:21; Jer 7:19Ps 31:620 “Harvest is past, summer is ended,And we are not saved.”21 For the abrokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken;I bmourn, dismay has taken hold of me.Jer 4:19; 9:1; 14:17Jer 14:2; Joel 2:6; Nah 2:1022 Is there no abalm in Gilead?Is there no physician there?bWhy then has not the 1health of the daughter of my people 2been restored?Or healingLit gone upGen 37:25; Jer 46:11Jer 14:19; 30:13