Jeremiah 8:4-17
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Jeremiah 8:4-17 - Judah Rejects God’s Torah (ESV SB)
Jeremiah 8:18-9:9 - Judah Lives Deceitfully (ESV SB)
Jeremiah 9:10-26 - Judah Grieves Jeremiah (ESV SB)
4 “You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not repent? 5 “Why then has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return. 6 “I have listened and heard, They have spoken what is not right; No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turned to his course, Like a horse charging into the battle. 7 “Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush Observe the time of their migration; But My people do not know The ordinance of the Lord.
Stubborn Apostasy (vv. 4-5)
Stubborn Apostasy (vv. 4-5)
Verse 4
16 For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.
Sinners will sin but a righteous man will repent. Though they turn away, they eventually turn back.
But (verse 5) the people of Jerusalem turn away in continual apostasy. They hold fast to deceit. They refuse to return.
[Apostasy?]
6 Therefore a lion from the forest will slay them, A wolf of the deserts will destroy them, A leopard is watching their cities. Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces, Because their transgressions are many, Their apostasies are numerous.
24 “Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
rebellion
abandonment
purposeful turning away
continual turning away
[Deceit?]
27 ‘Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.
6 “Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the Lord.
[Refuse?]
3 O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth? You have smitten them, But they did not weaken; You have consumed them, But they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent.
Eager Apostasy (v. 6)
Eager Apostasy (v. 6)
2 The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men To see if there are any who understand, Who seek after God.
30 “I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
2 The godly person has perished from the land, And there is no upright person among men. All of them lie in wait for bloodshed; Each of them hunts the other with a net.
20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;
God not only listens to what we say, He also sees what we do. Even if we say, “I repent,” God sees if we are genuine or not.
Horse charging = Ran to sin with eagerness
If we are charging into apostasy while claiming to be right with God, it can only be because we do not know God as He is.
Ignorant Apostasy (v. 7)
Ignorant Apostasy (v. 7)
6 Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise, 7 Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler, 8 Prepares her food in the summer And gathers her provision in the harvest.
3 “An ox knows its owner, And a donkey its master’s manger, But Israel does not know, My people do not understand.”
The birds in the sky know when its time to migrate, but God’s people don’t know that is time to repent RIGHT NOW. They don’t know because they do not know the ordinance (Law) of the Lord.
4 Then I said, “They are only the poor, They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the Lord Or the ordinance of their God.
[Ordinance?]
ordinance (Lat. ordinans, “arranging”) A religious rite, similar to a sacrament, engaged in as a memorial or act of obedience rather than as having sacramental efficacy. In nonsacramental Christian traditions, baptism and the Lord’s Supper are considered ordinances.
8 “How can you say, ‘We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie. 9 “The wise men are put to shame, They are dismayed and caught; Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, And what kind of wisdom do they have? 10 “Therefore I will give their wives to others, Their fields to new owners; Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is greedy for gain; From the prophet even to the priest Everyone practices deceit. 11 “They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ But there is no peace. 12 “Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed, And they did not know how to blush; Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down,” Says the Lord.
(v. 8) The wise obey the ordinance of God. The people of Judah were not wise because they were not obedient.
The Law of the Lord was not with them but against them.
The pens of the scribes recorded the word’s of false prophets as the Word of the Lord.
(v. 9) So-called ‘wise men’ are revealed to be fools because they reject the true Word of the Lord. They are put to shame, dismayed, and caught. Their ‘wisdom’ is foolishness and it is a snare.
(v. 10) Those who reject the Word of God will have their wives taken and given to others and their fields taken and given to new owners.
This will happen because they (all of them) have been greedy for gain and continually deceitful.
(v. 11) The scribes (?) heal the brokenness (worry and anxiety) of Jerusalem (?) superficially by pushing the message of the false prophets. The judgment of God was coming, but the false prophets were saying, “Peace, peace,” but there was no peace because there was no repentance.
(v. 12) The provoking of God with graven images with foreign idols (v. 19).
13 “I will surely snatch them away,” declares the Lord; “There will be no grapes on the vine And no figs on the fig tree, And the leaf will wither; And what I have given them will pass away.” ’ ” 14 Why are we sitting still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities And let us perish there, Because the Lord our God has doomed us And given us poisoned water to drink, For we have sinned against the Lord. 15 We waited for peace, but no good came; For a time of healing, but behold, terror! 16 From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses; At the sound of the neighing of his stallions The whole land quakes; For they come and devour the land and its fullness, The city and its inhabitants. 17 “For behold, I am sending serpents against you, Adders, for which there is no charm, And they will bite you,” declares the Lord.
(v. 13) The Lord’s judgment will snatch them away to such an extent that, if Judah were a vine or a fig tree, there would be no fruit left and the leaves would be withering.
(v. 14) “Let’s get it over with.”