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Blog entry: September 17, 2016




RF JER 8:1

At that period," says the EVER-LIVING, "they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its nobles, and the bones of its priests, and the bones of its preachers, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, from their tombs,

RF JER 8:2 and scatter them to the sun, and the moon, and all the host of the skies, whom they loved, and whom they served, and by whom they were seduced, and whom they sought, and whom they worshipped, none shall collect them, and none shall bury them, they shall be dung on the face of the ground.
RF JER 8:3 Then death will be preferred to life by all the fragments of the remnants of this wicked tribe in every place where the splintered fragments are," says the LORD OF HOSTS."
RF JER 8:4 Therefore tell them thus," says the EVER-LIVING. " Does the fallen never rise? Does the departed never return?
RF JER 8:5 Then why has this People of Jerusalem gone away with a perpetual departure? Why do they persist in desertion, and refuse to return?
RF JER 8:6 I attended and listened. However none spoke. No man sighed over his wickedness, or said, ' Why did I do it?' They all stuck to their course like horses whipped to the battle!"
RF JER 8:7 Even the stork knows her time for assembly and migration, and the crane and swallow keep the season of their coming, but My People know not the decrees of the EVER-LIVING."
RF JER 8:8 How can you say ' We are educated for we possess the laws of the EVER-LIVING?' Why then is the lying pen of the Recorder made for lies?
RF JER 8:9 Your Educated' cause shame, terror and disgrace, for they reject the Word of the EVER-LIVING, and what can their education do for them?—
RF JER 8:10 Therefore I will give their wives to ravishers, and their estates to plunderers, for from the least to the greatest they all cheat. From the preacher to the priest they all practice deception,
RF JER 8:11 and have healed the wound of the Daughter of My People not well, saying, Peace. Peace! when there is not peace!
RF JER 8:12 They should be ashamed of the villainy they have done. Shame, however, shames them not, none of them know it, therefore they shall fall with the falling, at the time of their punishment they shall stagger," says the EVER-LIVING.
RF JER 8:13 "I would reap them," says the EVER-LIVING, "but there are no bunches on the vine! There are no figs on the fig tree! And the leaves are withered! However I will transplant them."
RF JER 8:14 The People's Decision.
Why should we remain? Collect, arise, and let us go to the fortified towns, and be quiet there, for our EVER-LIVING GOD has stupefied us, and given us the juice of poppies to drink for our sins against the EVER-LIVING.
RF JER 8:15 We hoped for peace, but no good came at its season, for safety, and behold terror!
RF JER 8:16 The snort of his horses is heard from Dan, that sound of the neighs of their steeds fills all the land.
God's Reply.
"But they shall cross and devour, the country and its contents; the city and its inhabitants.
RF JER 8:17 For I have sent snakes to you, serpents for whom there is no charmer, and they will sting you," says the EVER-LIVING.
RF JER 8:18 The Prophets Anguish Over His Country.
Instead of my joy comes anguish, —affliction comes to my heart!
RF JER 8:19 It is the sound of the wail of the child of my People from a distant land! " Is there no GOD in Zion? Is there no king in her?" Why did they provoke Him with their idols? With foreign vanities?
RF JER 8:20 The harvest is past, the reaping is done, but we are not relieved.
RF JER 8:21 I have been wounded by the wound of the child of my People; I am weakened where I should be strengthened.
RF JER 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilad to heal? Is there no surgeon there? Why has not the child of my People gone there?
