WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome to immerse: the daily bible reading experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.370 day 200 and 64 00:00:04.744 --> 00:00:06.904 the Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. 00:00:07.474 --> 00:00:11.944 He said, go down to the potter's shop and I will speak to you there. 00:00:12.994 --> 00:00:16.804 So I did as he told me, and found the potter working at his wheel. 00:00:17.704 --> 00:00:22.264 But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into 00:00:22.264 --> 00:00:24.454 a lump of clay again and started over. 00:00:25.504 --> 00:00:29.014 Then the Lord gave me this message, oh, Israel. 00:00:29.674 --> 00:00:34.744 Can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay, as 00:00:34.744 --> 00:00:36.484 the clay is in the potter's hand? 00:00:36.934 --> 00:00:38.374 So are you in my hand? 00:00:39.124 --> 00:00:43.324 If I announce that a certain nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn 00:00:43.324 --> 00:00:48.754 down and destroyed, but then that nation renounces its evil ways, I 00:00:48.754 --> 00:00:50.974 will not destroy it as I had planned. 00:00:51.514 --> 00:00:56.044 And if I announce that I will plant and build up a certain nation or kingdom, 00:00:56.614 --> 00:01:02.494 but then that nation turns to evil and refuses to obey me, I will not bless it. 00:01:02.614 --> 00:01:09.724 As I said, I would therefore Jeremiah go and warn all Judah and Jerusalem say to 00:01:09.724 --> 00:01:16.024 them, this is what the Lord says, I am planning disaster for you instead of good. 00:01:16.684 --> 00:01:19.384 So turn from your evil ways each of you. 00:01:20.104 --> 00:01:24.634 Do what is right, but the people replied, don't waste your breath. 00:01:25.024 --> 00:01:30.154 We will continue to live as we want to stubbornly following our own evil desires. 00:01:31.084 --> 00:01:32.944 So this is what the Lord says. 00:01:33.994 --> 00:01:38.434 Has anyone ever heard of such a thing even among the pagan nations? 00:01:39.094 --> 00:01:42.664 My virgin daughter, Israel has done something terrible. 00:01:43.564 --> 00:01:47.314 Does the snow ever disappear from the mountaintops of Lebanon? 00:01:48.004 --> 00:01:52.594 Do the cold streams flowing from those distant mountains ever run dry? 00:01:53.434 --> 00:01:57.874 But my people are not so reliable for, they have deserted me. 00:01:58.624 --> 00:02:01.234 They burn incense to worthless idols. 00:02:01.834 --> 00:02:05.944 They have stumbled off the ancient highways and walk in muddy paths. 00:02:06.934 --> 00:02:09.694 Therefore, their land will become desolate. 00:02:10.234 --> 00:02:12.244 A monument to their stupidity. 00:02:13.084 --> 00:02:17.284 All who pass by will be astonished and will shake their heads in amazement. 00:02:18.019 --> 00:02:20.509 I will scatter my people before their enemies. 00:02:20.659 --> 00:02:26.509 As the east wind scatters dust and in all their trouble, I will turn my back on 00:02:26.514 --> 00:02:29.509 them and refuse to notice their distress. 00:02:30.649 --> 00:02:34.399 Then the people said, come on, let's plot away to stop. 00:02:34.399 --> 00:02:38.479 Jeremiah, we have plenty of priests and wise men and prophets. 00:02:38.749 --> 00:02:42.739 We don't need him to teach the word and give us advice and prophecies. 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:46.249 Let's spread rumors about him and ignore what he says. 00:02:47.449 --> 00:02:52.159 Lord, hear me and help me listen to what my enemies are saying. 00:02:52.999 --> 00:02:55.219 Should they repay evil for good? 00:02:56.089 --> 00:03:00.499 They have dug a pit to kill me, though I pleaded for them and tried 00:03:00.499 --> 00:03:02.089 to protect them from your anger. 00:03:02.839 --> 00:03:04.549 So let their children starve. 00:03:04.849 --> 00:03:06.319 Let them die by the sword. 00:03:06.739 --> 00:03:09.319 Let their wives become childless, widows. 00:03:09.649 --> 00:03:14.149 Let their old men die in a plague and let their young men be killed in battle. 00:03:14.734 --> 00:03:18.844 Let screaming be heard from their homes as warriors come suddenly upon 00:03:18.844 --> 00:03:23.734 them for they have dug a pit for me and have hidden traps along my path. 00:03:24.604 --> 00:03:28.024 Lord, you know all about their murderous plots against me. 00:03:28.804 --> 00:03:31.684 Don't forgive their crimes and blot out their sins. 00:03:32.104 --> 00:03:36.244 Let them die before you deal with them in your anger. 00:03:37.414 --> 00:03:38.854 This is what the Lord said to me. 00:03:39.484 --> 00:03:41.044 Go and buy a clay jar. 00:03:41.734 --> 00:03:45.424 Then ask some of the leaders of the people and of the priests to follow you. 00:03:45.994 --> 00:03:49.714 Go out through the gate of broken pots to the garbage dump in the Valley of 00:03:49.714 --> 00:03:52.114 Ben Ham and give them this message. 00:03:52.774 --> 00:03:56.914 Say to them, listen to this message from the Lord you kings of 00:03:56.914 --> 00:03:59.164 Judah and citizens of Jerusalem. 00:03:59.824 --> 00:04:04.744 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says, I will bring a 00:04:04.744 --> 00:04:09.484 terrible disaster on this place, and the ears of those who hear about it will ring. 00:04:10.339 --> 00:04:15.469 For Israel has forsaken me and turned this valley into a place of wickedness. 00:04:16.099 --> 00:04:21.139 The people burn incense to foreign gods idols never before acknowledged 00:04:21.144 --> 00:04:25.159 by this generation, by their ancestors, or by the kings of Judah. 00:04:26.059 --> 00:04:29.149 And they have filled this place with the blood of innocent children. 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:34.009 They have built pagan shrines to Baal, and there they burn 00:04:34.009 --> 00:04:35.959 their sons as sacrifices to Baal. 00:04:37.069 --> 00:04:39.529 I have never commanded such a horrible deeded. 00:04:39.919 --> 00:04:43.159 It never even crossed my mind to command such a thing. 00:04:44.239 --> 00:04:47.479 So beware for the time is coming, says the Lord. 00:04:47.689 --> 00:04:53.839 When this garbage dump will no longer be called tophi or the Valley of Ben Ham, but 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:59.509 the Valley of slaughter, for I will upset the careful plans of Judah and Jerusalem. 00:05:00.109 --> 00:05:04.279 I will allow the people to be slaughtered by invading armies, and I 00:05:04.279 --> 00:05:08.599 will leave their dead bodies as food for the vultures and wild animals. 00:05:09.469 --> 00:05:14.479 I will reduce Jerusalem to ruins, making it a monument to their stupidity. 00:05:15.229 --> 00:05:18.619 All who pass by will be astonished and will gasp at 00:05:18.619 --> 00:05:20.089 the destruction they see there. 00:05:20.689 --> 00:05:23.689 I will see to it that your enemies lay siege to the city 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:25.489 until all the food is gone. 00:05:26.149 --> 00:05:31.519 Then those trapped inside will eat their own sons and daughters and friends. 00:05:32.209 --> 00:05:36.889 They will be driven to utter despair as these men watch you. 00:05:36.889 --> 00:05:37.699 Jeremiah. 00:05:38.134 --> 00:05:43.084 Smash the jar you brought, then say to them, this is what the 00:05:43.084 --> 00:05:44.794 Lord of heaven's armies says. 00:05:45.514 --> 00:05:50.314 As this jar lies shattered, so I will shatter the people of Judah and 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:52.924 Jerusalem beyond all hope of repair. 00:05:53.614 --> 00:05:58.024 They will bury the bodies here in tophi the garbage dump until 00:05:58.024 --> 00:05:59.404 there is no more room for them. 00:06:00.334 --> 00:06:05.164 This is what I will do to this place and its people, says the Lord, I will cause 00:06:05.169 --> 00:06:07.474 this city to become defiled like tophi. 00:06:08.224 --> 00:06:08.764 Yes. 00:06:09.004 --> 00:06:12.484 All the houses in Jerusalem, including the Palace of Judah's 00:06:12.484 --> 00:06:14.644 kings, will become like tophi. 00:06:15.454 --> 00:06:19.444 All the houses where you burned incense on the rooftops to your star 00:06:19.444 --> 00:06:23.554 gods, and where liquid offerings were poured out to your idols. 00:06:24.724 --> 00:06:28.804 Then Jeremiah returned from tophi the garbage dump where he had delivered 00:06:28.804 --> 00:06:32.104 this message and he stopped in front of the temple of the Lord. 00:06:32.824 --> 00:06:36.934 He said to the people there, This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the 00:06:36.934 --> 00:06:42.124 God of Israel says, I will bring disaster upon this city and its surrounding 00:06:42.124 --> 00:06:47.284 towns as I promised, because you have stubbornly refused to listen to me. 00:06:48.484 --> 00:06:50.614 Now pass her son of Immer. 00:06:50.764 --> 00:06:54.964 The priest in charge of the temple of the Lord heard what Jeremiah was prophesying, 00:06:55.594 --> 00:07:00.484 so he arrested Jeremiah the prophet and had him whipped and put in stocks at 00:07:00.484 --> 00:07:02.284 the Benjamin Gate of the Lord's temple. 00:07:03.304 --> 00:07:09.004 The next day when Pastor finally released him, Jeremiah said, pastor, 00:07:09.394 --> 00:07:11.044 the Lord has changed your name. 00:07:11.554 --> 00:07:16.024 From now on, you are to be called the man who lives in terror. 00:07:16.804 --> 00:07:22.144 For this is what the Lord says, I will send terror upon you and all your 00:07:22.144 --> 00:07:26.434 friends, and you will watch as they're slaughtered by the swords of the enemy. 00:07:27.124 --> 00:07:30.244 I will hand the people of Judah over to the King of Babylon. 00:07:30.814 --> 00:07:35.734 He will take them captive to Babylon or run them through with the sword, and I 00:07:35.734 --> 00:07:37.924 will let your enemies plunder Jerusalem. 00:07:38.464 --> 00:07:43.624 All the famed treasures of the city, the precious jewels and gold and silver of 00:07:43.624 --> 00:07:46.384 your kings will be carried off to Babylon. 00:07:47.404 --> 00:07:52.354 As for you, pastor, you and all your household will go as captives to Babylon. 00:07:53.044 --> 00:07:55.054 There you will die and be buried. 00:07:55.804 --> 00:07:59.014 You and all your friends to whom you prophesied that 00:07:59.014 --> 00:08:00.244 everything would be all right. 00:08:01.339 --> 00:08:06.379 Oh Lord, you misled me and I allowed myself to be misled. 00:08:07.099 --> 00:08:10.339 You are stronger than I am and you overpowered me. 00:08:11.329 --> 00:08:13.219 Now I am mocked every day. 00:08:13.699 --> 00:08:16.669 Everyone laughs at me when I speak. 00:08:16.819 --> 00:08:20.749 The words burst out violence and destruction. 00:08:20.749 --> 00:08:21.319 I shout. 00:08:22.249 --> 00:08:25.549 So these messages from the Lord have made me a household joke, 00:08:26.359 --> 00:08:29.779 but if I say, I'll never mention the Lord or speak in his name. 00:08:30.574 --> 00:08:33.364 His word burns in my heart like a fire. 00:08:34.084 --> 00:08:36.094 It's like a fire in my bones. 00:08:36.964 --> 00:08:39.304 I am worn out trying to hold it in. 00:08:39.724 --> 00:08:40.534 I can't do it. 00:08:41.704 --> 00:08:43.774 I have heard the many rumors about me. 00:08:44.434 --> 00:08:47.164 They call me the man who lives in terror. 00:08:47.364 --> 00:08:51.154 They threaten if you say anything, we will report it. 00:08:51.754 --> 00:08:55.384 Even my old friends are watching me waiting for a fatal slip. 00:08:56.434 --> 00:08:59.284 He will trap himself, they say, and then. 00:08:59.659 --> 00:09:01.129 We will get our revenge on him. 00:09:02.539 --> 00:09:06.859 But the Lord stands beside me like a great warrior before him. 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:08.659 My persecutor will stumble. 00:09:09.409 --> 00:09:10.639 They cannot defeat me. 00:09:11.059 --> 00:09:13.549 They will fail and be thoroughly humiliated. 00:09:14.149 --> 00:09:16.369 Their dishonor will never be forgotten. 00:09:17.179 --> 00:09:18.829 Oh Lord of heaven's armies. 00:09:19.009 --> 00:09:23.899 You test those who are righteous and you examine the deepest thoughts and secrets. 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:29.629 Let me see your vengeance against them for I have committed my cause to you. 00:09:30.829 --> 00:09:32.059 Sing to the Lord. 00:09:32.629 --> 00:09:38.959 Praise the Lord for though I was poor and needy, he rescued me from my oppressors. 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.109 Yet I cursed the day I was born. 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.259 May no one celebrate the day of my birth. 00:09:45.979 --> 00:09:48.319 I curse the messenger who told my father. 00:09:48.649 --> 00:09:49.369 Good news. 00:09:49.369 --> 00:09:50.149 You have a son. 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:55.519 Let him be destroyed like the cities of old, that the Lord overthrew 00:09:55.519 --> 00:10:00.589 without mercy terrify him all day long with battle shouts because 00:10:00.589 --> 00:10:02.089 he did not kill me at birth. 00:10:02.989 --> 00:10:07.579 Oh, that I had died in my mother's womb, that her body had been my grave. 00:10:08.449 --> 00:10:09.889 Why was I ever born? 00:10:11.179 --> 00:10:16.219 My entire life has been filled with trouble, sorrow, and shame. 00:10:17.929 --> 00:10:21.949 The Lord spoke through Jeremiah when King Zedekiah sent Pacher 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:27.529 son of Maja and Zephaniah, son of Meia, the priest to speak with him. 00:10:28.489 --> 00:10:29.119 They begged. 00:10:29.124 --> 00:10:33.889 Jeremiah, please speak to the Lord for us and ask him to help us. 00:10:34.699 --> 00:10:37.429 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is attacking Judah. 00:10:38.149 --> 00:10:42.709 Perhaps the Lord will be gracious and do a mighty miracle as he has done in the past. 00:10:43.324 --> 00:10:46.354 Perhaps he will force Nebuchadnezzar to withdraw his armies. 00:10:47.404 --> 00:10:52.384 Jeremiah replied, go back to Kings Tiah and tell him this is what 00:10:52.384 --> 00:10:54.394 the Lord the God of Israel says. 00:10:55.084 --> 00:10:59.674 I will make your weapons useless against the King of Babylon and the Babylonians 00:10:59.674 --> 00:11:01.564 who are outside your walls attacking you. 00:11:02.374 --> 00:11:06.514 In fact, I will bring your enemies right into the heart of this city. 00:11:07.294 --> 00:11:12.154 I myself will fight against you with a strong hand and a powerful arm. 00:11:12.154 --> 00:11:12.214 I. 00:11:12.814 --> 00:11:14.224 For I am very angry. 00:11:14.884 --> 00:11:16.504 You have made me furious. 00:11:17.254 --> 00:11:22.264 I will send a terrible plague upon this city and both people and animals will die. 00:11:22.744 --> 00:11:28.054 And after all that says, the Lord, I will hand over King Zedekiah, his 00:11:28.059 --> 00:11:33.184 staff and everyone else in the city who survives the disease, war and famine. 00:11:33.904 --> 00:11:36.724 I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon 00:11:36.994 --> 00:11:38.314 and to their other enemies. 00:11:38.854 --> 00:11:42.034 He will slaughter them and show them no mercy. 00:11:42.364 --> 00:11:43.924 Pity or compassion. 00:11:45.514 --> 00:11:48.454 Tell all the people, this is what the Lord says. 00:11:49.144 --> 00:11:51.514 Take your choice of life or death. 00:11:52.144 --> 00:11:56.944 Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, famine, or disease, 00:11:57.634 --> 00:12:00.875 but those who go out and surrender to the Babylonians will live. 00:12:02.224 --> 00:12:05.074 Their reward will be life thrive. 00:12:05.074 --> 00:12:09.994 Decided to bring disaster and not good upon this city, says the Lord. 00:12:10.549 --> 00:12:15.259 It will be handed over to the king of Babylon and he will reduce it to ashes. 00:12:16.069 --> 00:12:17.959 Say to the royal family of Judah. 00:12:18.529 --> 00:12:20.479 Listen to this message from the Lord. 00:12:20.959 --> 00:12:23.629 This is what the Lord says to the dynasty of David. 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.039 Give justice each morning to the people you judge. 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:32.389 Help those who have been robbed rescue them from their oppressors. 00:12:33.409 --> 00:12:37.189 Otherwise, my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire 00:12:37.339 --> 00:12:38.659 because of all your sins. 00:12:39.409 --> 00:12:43.489 I will personally fight against the people in Jerusalem, that mighty 00:12:43.489 --> 00:12:46.129 fortress, the people who boast. 00:12:46.339 --> 00:12:47.749 No one can touch us here. 00:12:47.899 --> 00:12:52.279 No one can break in here, and I myself will punish you for 00:12:52.284 --> 00:12:54.139 your sinfulness, says the Lord. 00:12:54.829 --> 00:12:59.209 I will light a fire in your forests that will burn up everything around you. 00:13:00.349 --> 00:13:01.849 This is what the Lord said to me. 00:13:02.809 --> 00:13:05.389 Go over and speak directly to the King of Judah. 00:13:05.974 --> 00:13:09.244 Say to him, listen to this message from the Lord. 00:13:09.574 --> 00:13:12.274 You king of Judah sitting on David's throne. 00:13:12.874 --> 00:13:17.794 Let your attendance and your people listen to this is what the Lord says. 00:13:18.874 --> 00:13:22.714 Be fair-minded and just do what is right. 00:13:23.284 --> 00:13:26.824 Help those who have been robbed, rescue them from their oppressors. 00:13:27.184 --> 00:13:28.714 Quit your evil deeds. 00:13:29.314 --> 00:13:32.854 Do not mistreat foreigners, orphans, and widows. 00:13:33.544 --> 00:13:35.344 Stop murdering the innocent. 00:13:36.394 --> 00:13:40.534 If you obey me, there will always be a descendant of David sitting 00:13:40.534 --> 00:13:42.604 on the throne here in Jerusalem. 00:13:43.204 --> 00:13:48.334 The king will ride through the palace gates in chariots and on horses with 00:13:48.334 --> 00:13:50.674 his parade of attendance and subjects. 00:13:51.844 --> 00:13:56.014 But if you refuse to pay attention to this warning, I swear by my 00:13:56.014 --> 00:14:00.934 own name, says the Lord, that this palace will become a pile of rubble. 00:14:02.059 --> 00:14:05.419 Now this is what the Lord says concerning Judah's royal Palace. 00:14:06.979 --> 00:14:11.869 I love you as much as fruitful Gilead and the green forests of Lebanon, 00:14:12.739 --> 00:14:17.119 but I will turn you into a desert with no one living within your walls. 00:14:17.899 --> 00:14:21.919 I will call for wreckers who will bring out their tools to dismantle you. 00:14:22.459 --> 00:14:26.749 They will tear out all your fine cedar beams and throw them on the fire. 00:14:27.784 --> 00:14:31.384 People from many nations will pass by the ruins of this city and 00:14:31.384 --> 00:14:35.674 say to one another, why did the Lord destroy such a great city? 00:14:36.364 --> 00:14:40.114 And the answer will be because they violated their covenant 00:14:40.114 --> 00:14:41.314 with the Lord their God. 00:14:41.644 --> 00:14:47.974 By worshiping other gods do not weep for the dead king or mourn his loss. 00:14:48.784 --> 00:14:53.884 Instead, weep for the captive king being led away for he will never 00:14:53.884 --> 00:14:56.044 return to see his native land again. 00:14:57.649 --> 00:15:02.029 For this is what the Lord says about Jehovah has who succeeded his father King 00:15:02.029 --> 00:15:04.519 Josiah, and was taken away as a captive. 00:15:05.419 --> 00:15:06.859 He will never return. 00:15:07.339 --> 00:15:11.599 He will die in a distant land and will never again see his own country. 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:15.079 And the Lord says, what? 00:15:15.079 --> 00:15:16.309 Sorrow awaits. 00:15:16.309 --> 00:15:19.969 Je Hoya Kim who builds his palace with forced labor. 00:15:20.539 --> 00:15:26.089 He builds injustice into its walls for he makes his neighbors work for nothing. 00:15:26.704 --> 00:15:28.534 He does not pay them for their labor. 00:15:29.074 --> 00:15:33.904 He says, I will build a magnificent palace with huge rooms and many windows. 00:15:34.294 --> 00:15:38.254 I will panel it throughout with fragrant cedar and painted a 00:15:38.254 --> 00:15:43.414 lovely red, but a beautiful cedar palace does not make a great king. 00:15:44.494 --> 00:15:49.954 Your father, Josiah also had plenty to eat and drink, but he was just 00:15:49.954 --> 00:15:51.784 and right in all his dealings. 00:15:52.174 --> 00:15:53.554 That is why God blessed him. 00:15:54.184 --> 00:15:58.894 He gave justice and help to the poor and needy, and everything went well for him. 00:15:59.584 --> 00:16:05.764 Isn't that what it means to know me, says the Lord, but you, you have 00:16:05.769 --> 00:16:08.104 eyes only for greed and dishonesty. 00:16:08.674 --> 00:16:13.624 You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly. 00:16:14.524 --> 00:16:18.874 Therefore, this is what the Lord says about Jo Hoya Kim, son of King Josiah. 00:16:20.344 --> 00:16:22.114 The people will not mourn for him. 00:16:22.594 --> 00:16:23.944 Crying to one another. 00:16:24.154 --> 00:16:29.674 Alas, my brother, alas, my sister, his subjects will not mourn for him. 00:16:29.944 --> 00:16:30.544 Crying. 00:16:30.724 --> 00:16:32.524 Alas, our master is dead. 00:16:32.944 --> 00:16:34.924 Alas, his splendor is gone. 00:16:35.764 --> 00:16:37.804 He will be buried like a dead donkey. 00:16:38.404 --> 00:16:41.614 Dragged out of Jerusalem and dumped outside the gates. 00:16:42.664 --> 00:16:44.764 Weep for your allies in Lebanon. 00:16:45.034 --> 00:16:46.594 Shout for them in basin. 00:16:47.224 --> 00:16:49.534 Search for them in the regions east of the river. 00:16:50.284 --> 00:16:52.354 See, they are all destroyed. 00:16:52.984 --> 00:16:54.904 Not one is left to help you. 00:16:55.894 --> 00:17:00.394 I warned you when you are prosperous, but you replied, don't bother me. 00:17:01.234 --> 00:17:03.124 You have been that way since childhood. 00:17:03.364 --> 00:17:05.134 You simply will not obey me. 00:17:05.764 --> 00:17:07.834 And now the wind will blow away. 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:11.704 Your allies, all your friends will be taken away as captives. 00:17:12.424 --> 00:17:15.694 Surely then you will see your wickedness and be ashamed. 00:17:16.819 --> 00:17:20.599 It may be nice to live in a beautiful palace paneled with wood from the 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:25.369 cedars of Lebanon, but soon you will groan with pangs of anguish. 00:17:26.179 --> 00:17:31.969 Anguish like that of a woman in labor, as surely as I live, says the Lord. 00:17:32.569 --> 00:17:36.949 I will abandon you Je Joa Kin's, son of Je Hoya Kim, king of Judah. 00:17:37.909 --> 00:17:41.839 Even if you were the signet ring on my right hand, I would pull you off. 00:17:42.469 --> 00:17:44.989 I will hand you over to those who seek to kill you. 00:17:45.349 --> 00:17:49.819 Those you sow desperately fear to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and 00:17:49.824 --> 00:17:54.439 the mighty Babylonian army, I will expel you and your mother from this 00:17:54.444 --> 00:17:58.909 land and you will die in a foreign country, not in your native land. 00:17:59.629 --> 00:18:02.929 You will never again return to the land you yearn for. 00:18:03.339 --> 00:18:08.419 Why is this man je Hoya, kin like a discarded broken jar? 00:18:09.199 --> 00:18:12.739 Why are he and his children to be exiled to a foreign land? 00:18:14.014 --> 00:18:17.164 Oh, earth, earth, earth. 00:18:17.914 --> 00:18:20.014 Listen to this message from the Lord. 00:18:20.764 --> 00:18:22.294 This is what the Lord says. 00:18:23.284 --> 00:18:26.944 Let the record show that this man Je Hoa kin was childless. 00:18:27.904 --> 00:18:31.894 He is a failure for none of his children will succeed him on the 00:18:31.894 --> 00:18:34.234 throne of David to rule over Judah. 00:18:35.404 --> 00:18:39.934 What sorrow awaits the leaders of my people, the shepherds of my sheep. 00:18:40.594 --> 00:18:44.044 For they have destroyed and scattered the very ones they were 00:18:44.044 --> 00:18:46.744 expected to care for, says the Lord. 00:18:48.034 --> 00:18:53.044 Therefore, this is what the Lord the God of Israel says to these shepherds. 00:18:54.334 --> 00:18:58.984 Instead of caring for my flock and leading them to safety, you have deserted 00:18:58.984 --> 00:19:01.174 them and driven them to destruction. 00:19:02.014 --> 00:19:06.034 Now I will pour out judgment on you for the evil you have done to them. 00:19:06.934 --> 00:19:10.444 I will gather together the remnant of my flock from the countries 00:19:10.444 --> 00:19:11.404 where I have driven them. 00:19:11.944 --> 00:19:15.184 I will bring them back to their own sheep fold, and they will be 00:19:15.184 --> 00:19:17.464 fruitful and increase in number. 00:19:18.304 --> 00:19:21.604 Then I will appoint responsible shepherds who will care for them 00:19:22.054 --> 00:19:23.974 and they will never be afraid again. 00:19:24.904 --> 00:19:27.454 Not a single one will be lost or missing. 00:19:28.294 --> 00:19:33.544 I, the Lord have spoken for the time is coming, says the Lord. 00:19:34.189 --> 00:19:39.049 When I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David's line, he 00:19:39.049 --> 00:19:41.269 will be a king who rules with wisdom. 00:19:41.869 --> 00:19:44.869 He will do what is just and right throughout the land, 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:46.819 and this will be his name. 00:19:47.659 --> 00:19:49.729 The Lord is our righteousness. 00:19:50.509 --> 00:19:55.369 In that day, Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety 00:19:56.389 --> 00:19:58.159 in that day, says the Lord. 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:03.529 When people are taking an oath, they will no longer say as surely as the Lord lives. 00:20:03.889 --> 00:20:06.679 Who rescued the people of Israel from the land of Egypt. 00:20:07.489 --> 00:20:12.139 Instead, they will say, as surely as the Lord lives, who brought the people 00:20:12.139 --> 00:20:16.699 of Israel back to their own land, from the land of the north and from all the 00:20:16.699 --> 00:20:22.039 countries to which he had exiled them, then they will live in their own land. 00:20:23.269 --> 00:20:27.589 My heart is broken because of the false prophets and my bones tremble. 00:20:28.159 --> 00:20:31.939 I stagger like a drunkard, like someone overcome by wine. 00:20:32.329 --> 00:20:33.859 Because of the holy words. 00:20:33.859 --> 00:20:35.359 The Lord has spoken against them. 00:20:36.229 --> 00:20:39.919 For the land is full of adultery and it lies under a curse. 00:20:40.609 --> 00:20:42.769 The land itself is in mourning. 00:20:43.009 --> 00:20:47.599 Its wilderness Pastures are dried up for they all do evil 00:20:47.689 --> 00:20:49.579 and abuse what power they have. 00:20:50.479 --> 00:20:53.659 Even the priests and prophets are ungodly wicked men. 00:20:54.259 --> 00:20:58.699 I have seen their despicable acts right here in my own temple, says the Lord. 00:20:59.434 --> 00:21:02.554 Therefore the paths they take will become slippery. 00:21:03.094 --> 00:21:07.594 They will be chased through the dark and there they will fall for I 00:21:07.594 --> 00:21:11.044 will bring disaster upon them at the time, fixed for their punishment. 00:21:11.974 --> 00:21:13.894 I, the Lord have spoken. 00:21:15.244 --> 00:21:19.144 I saw that the prophets of Samaria were terribly evil for they 00:21:19.144 --> 00:21:23.074 prophesied in the name of Baal and led my people of Israel into sin. 00:21:23.959 --> 00:21:27.349 Now I see that the prophets of Jerusalem are even worse. 00:21:27.649 --> 00:21:30.259 They commit adultery and love dishonesty. 00:21:30.679 --> 00:21:35.299 They encourage those who are doing evil so that no one turns away from their sins. 00:21:36.109 --> 00:21:40.129 These prophets are as wicked as the people of Sodom and Kimora once were. 00:21:40.879 --> 00:21:44.299 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven's armies says 00:21:44.329 --> 00:21:45.589 concerning the prophets. 00:21:46.849 --> 00:21:50.539 I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink. 00:21:50.914 --> 00:21:55.414 For it is because of Jerusalem's prophets that wickedness has filled this land. 00:21:56.434 --> 00:21:59.224 This is what the Lord of Heaven's army says to his people. 00:22:00.124 --> 00:22:03.214 Do not listen to these prophets when they prophesy to you, 00:22:03.664 --> 00:22:05.374 filling you with futile hopes. 00:22:05.794 --> 00:22:07.504 They are making up everything they say. 00:22:08.014 --> 00:22:09.664 They do not speak for the Lord. 00:22:10.174 --> 00:22:13.774 They keep saying to those who despise my word, don't worry. 00:22:13.984 --> 00:22:15.604 The Lord says, you will have peace. 00:22:16.369 --> 00:22:19.369 To those who stubbornly follow their own desires, they say, 00:22:19.669 --> 00:22:21.079 no harm will come your way. 00:22:22.129 --> 00:22:25.039 Have any of these prophets been in the Lord's presence to 00:22:25.044 --> 00:22:26.449 hear what he is really saying? 00:22:27.019 --> 00:22:29.509 Has even one of them cared enough to listen? 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:35.479 Look, the Lord's anger bursts out like a storm, a whirlwind that swirls 00:22:35.479 --> 00:22:36.949 down on the heads of the wicked. 00:22:37.489 --> 00:22:41.209 The anger of the Lord will not diminish until it has finished all 00:22:41.209 --> 00:22:43.729 he has planned in the days to come. 00:22:44.329 --> 00:22:46.429 You will understand all this very clearly. 00:22:47.389 --> 00:22:49.759 I have not sent these prophets yet. 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:51.619 They run around claiming to speak for me. 00:22:52.189 --> 00:22:54.199 I have given them no message yet. 00:22:54.199 --> 00:22:55.459 They go on prophesying. 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:59.479 If they had stood before me and listened to me, they would've spoken 00:22:59.479 --> 00:23:03.919 my words and they would have turned my people from their evil ways and deeds. 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:07.999 Am I a God who is only close at hand, says the Lord? 00:23:08.689 --> 00:23:09.169 No. 00:23:09.679 --> 00:23:11.539 I am far away at the same time. 00:23:12.229 --> 00:23:14.989 Can anyone hide from me in a secret place? 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:19.969 Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth says the Lord? 00:23:21.019 --> 00:23:26.329 I have heard these prophets say, listen to the dream I had from God last night, and 00:23:26.329 --> 00:23:28.789 then they proceed to tell lies in my name. 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:32.749 How long will this go on if they are prophets? 00:23:33.139 --> 00:23:36.469 They're prophets of deceit inventing everything they say 00:23:37.059 --> 00:23:39.019 by telling these false dreams. 00:23:39.109 --> 00:23:41.299 They're trying to get my people to forget me. 00:23:41.299 --> 00:23:41.359 I. 00:23:41.929 --> 00:23:45.169 Just as their ancestors did by worshiping the idols of Baal. 00:23:46.459 --> 00:23:50.779 Let these false prophets tell their dreams, but let my true messengers 00:23:50.929 --> 00:23:52.969 faithfully proclaim my every word. 00:23:53.719 --> 00:23:56.509 There is a difference between straw and grain. 00:23:57.349 --> 00:24:01.039 Does not my word burn like fire says the Lord. 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:05.749 Is it not like a mighty hammer that smashes a rock to pieces, 00:24:06.709 --> 00:24:08.299 therefore, says the Lord? 00:24:08.824 --> 00:24:12.274 I'm against these prophets who steal messages from each other 00:24:12.274 --> 00:24:13.504 and claim they're from me. 00:24:14.314 --> 00:24:19.234 I'm against these smooth tongue prophets who say, this prophecy is from the Lord. 00:24:19.984 --> 00:24:21.844 I'm against these false prophets. 00:24:22.324 --> 00:24:26.554 Their imaginary dreams are flagrant lies that lead my people into sin. 00:24:27.154 --> 00:24:31.594 I did not send or appoint them, and they have no message at all for my people. 00:24:32.494 --> 00:24:34.254 I, the Lord have spoken. 00:24:35.944 --> 00:24:40.834 Suppose one of the people or one of the prophets or priests asks you, what 00:24:40.834 --> 00:24:42.934 prophecy has the Lord burdened you with? 00:24:42.934 --> 00:24:45.004 Now you must reply. 00:24:45.394 --> 00:24:46.954 You are the burden. 00:24:47.494 --> 00:24:49.354 The Lord says He will abandon you. 00:24:50.464 --> 00:24:54.634 If any prophet, priest, or anyone else says, I have a prophecy from 00:24:54.634 --> 00:24:59.014 the Lord, I will punish that person along with his entire family. 00:24:59.764 --> 00:25:01.064 You should keep asking each other. 00:25:01.684 --> 00:25:05.194 What is the Lord's answer, or what is the Lord saying? 00:25:05.854 --> 00:25:08.914 But stop using this phrase, prophecy from the Lord. 00:25:09.484 --> 00:25:12.634 For people are using it to give authority to their own ideas. 00:25:13.024 --> 00:25:16.294 Turning upside down the words of our God, the living God, 00:25:16.864 --> 00:25:18.274 the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:25:19.504 --> 00:25:21.274 This is what you should say to the prophets. 00:25:22.054 --> 00:25:23.284 What is the Lord's answer? 00:25:23.734 --> 00:25:25.714 Or what is the Lord saying? 00:25:26.524 --> 00:25:27.874 But suppose they respond. 00:25:28.474 --> 00:25:30.124 This is a prophecy from the Lord. 00:25:30.649 --> 00:25:34.909 Then you should say, this is what the Lord says because you have used 00:25:34.909 --> 00:25:39.439 this phrase, prophecy from the Lord, even though I warned you not to use 00:25:39.439 --> 00:25:42.049 it, I will forget you completely. 00:25:42.589 --> 00:25:47.359 I will expel you from my presence along with this city that I gave to you and 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:51.679 your ancestors, and I will make you an object of ridicule and your name 00:25:51.684 --> 00:25:53.539 will be infamous throughout the ages. 00:25:55.234 --> 00:25:59.854 After King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon exiled Je Hoya kin son of Je Hoya 00:25:59.854 --> 00:26:03.964 Kim, king of Judah, to Babylon, along with the officials of Judah 00:26:04.294 --> 00:26:08.104 and all the craftsmen and artisans, the Lord gave me this vision. 00:26:08.824 --> 00:26:12.964 I saw two baskets of figs placed in front of the Lord's temple in Jerusalem. 00:26:13.594 --> 00:26:17.734 One basket was filled with fresh, ripe figs while the other was filled with 00:26:17.734 --> 00:26:19.774 bad figs that were too rotten to eat. 00:26:20.644 --> 00:26:24.244 Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? 00:26:25.204 --> 00:26:30.004 I replied, figs, some very good and some very bad. 00:26:30.064 --> 00:26:30.934 Too rotten to eat. 00:26:31.804 --> 00:26:33.364 Then the Lord gave me this message. 00:26:34.054 --> 00:26:36.694 This is what the Lord the God of Israel says. 00:26:37.354 --> 00:26:42.154 The good figs represent the exiles I sent from Judah to the land of the Babylonians. 00:26:42.814 --> 00:26:47.014 I will watch over and care for them, and I will bring them back here again. 00:26:47.614 --> 00:26:49.984 I will build them up and not tear them down. 00:26:50.464 --> 00:26:52.744 I will plant them and not uproot them. 00:26:53.224 --> 00:26:56.254 I will give them hearts that recognize me as the Lord. 00:26:56.914 --> 00:27:00.994 They will be my people and I will be their God for they will 00:27:00.994 --> 00:27:03.004 return to me wholeheartedly. 00:27:03.904 --> 00:27:09.184 But the bad figs, the Lord said, represent zakiah of Judah, his 00:27:09.184 --> 00:27:13.594 officials, all the people left in Jerusalem and those who live in Egypt. 00:27:14.314 --> 00:27:17.314 I will treat them like bad figs, too rotten to eat. 00:27:17.914 --> 00:27:22.624 I will make them an object of horror and a symbol of evil to every nation on earth. 00:27:23.254 --> 00:27:27.394 They will be disgraced and mocked, taunted and cursed wherever I scatter them. 00:27:28.024 --> 00:27:32.434 And I will send war, famine, and disease until they have vanished 00:27:32.439 --> 00:27:35.824 from the land of Israel, which I gave to them and their ancestors. 00:27:37.534 --> 00:27:41.224 This message for all the people of Judah came to Jeremiah from 00:27:41.224 --> 00:27:44.824 the Lord during the fourth year of Je Hoya, Kim's reign over Judah. 00:27:45.484 --> 00:27:49.234 This was the year when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon began his reign. 00:27:50.314 --> 00:27:55.714 Jeremiah the prophet, said to all the people in Judah and Jerusalem for the past 00:27:55.714 --> 00:28:01.204 23 years, from the 13th year of the reign of Josiah, son of Amman, king of Judah. 00:28:01.564 --> 00:28:04.894 Until now, the Lord has been giving me his messages. 00:28:05.524 --> 00:28:11.554 I have faithfully passed them on to you, but you have not listened again and again. 00:28:11.764 --> 00:28:15.964 The Lord has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened 00:28:16.414 --> 00:28:19.084 or even paid attention each time. 00:28:19.084 --> 00:28:23.524 The message was this, turn from the evil road you are traveling and 00:28:23.524 --> 00:28:25.234 from the evil things you are doing. 00:28:25.924 --> 00:28:29.284 Only then will I let you live in this land that the Lord gave to 00:28:29.284 --> 00:28:30.904 you and your ancestors forever. 00:28:31.444 --> 00:28:35.524 Do not provoke my anger by worshiping idols you made with your own hands 00:28:36.184 --> 00:28:40.984 then I will not harm you, but you would not listen to me, says the Lord. 00:28:41.524 --> 00:28:46.474 You made me furious by worshiping idols you made with your own hands, bringing 00:28:46.474 --> 00:28:48.664 on yourselves all the disasters. 00:28:48.664 --> 00:28:49.474 You now suffer. 00:28:50.044 --> 00:28:54.214 And now the Lord of Heaven's army says because you have not listened to me. 00:28:54.589 --> 00:28:57.619 I will gather together all the armies of the North under King 00:28:57.619 --> 00:29:01.309 Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whom I have appointed as my deputy. 00:29:02.059 --> 00:29:05.269 I will bring them all against this land and its people, and 00:29:05.269 --> 00:29:06.769 against the surrounding nations. 00:29:07.429 --> 00:29:11.239 I will completely destroy you and make you an object of horror 00:29:11.239 --> 00:29:13.759 and contempt and a ruin forever. 00:29:14.449 --> 00:29:16.789 I will take away your happy singing and laughter. 00:29:17.239 --> 00:29:21.139 The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard. 00:29:21.964 --> 00:29:26.164 Your millstones will fall silent and the lights in your homes will go out. 00:29:26.944 --> 00:29:29.824 This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. 00:29:30.454 --> 00:29:35.644 Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years. 00:29:36.484 --> 00:29:40.384 Then after the 70 years of captivity are over, I will punish 00:29:40.384 --> 00:29:44.014 the king of Babylon and his people for their sins, says the Lord. 00:29:44.704 --> 00:29:47.974 I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever. 00:29:48.544 --> 00:29:51.934 I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book. 00:29:52.354 --> 00:29:57.724 All the penalties announced by Jeremiah against the nations, many nations and 00:29:57.724 --> 00:30:00.034 great kings will enslave the Babylonians. 00:30:00.364 --> 00:30:04.984 Just as they enslaved my people, I will punish them in proportion to 00:30:04.984 --> 00:30:06.694 the suffering they caused my people. 00:30:08.794 --> 00:30:11.644 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:30:11.794 --> 00:30:12.994 Thank you for joining us.