Jeremiah 44:22

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Summary

So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

Could

Your land

Bible References

Could

You have left Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
You have turned your back,
so I have stretched out My hand against you
and destroyed you.
I am tired of showing compassion.

And the Lord said, “My Spirit will not remain with mankind forever, because they are corrupt.

Their days will be 120 years.”

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”

Therefore the Lord God of Hosts,
the Mighty One of Israel, declares:
“Ah, I will gain satisfaction from My foes;
I will take revenge against My enemies.

Isaiah said, “Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?

You have not bought Me aromatic cane with silver,
or satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices.
But you have burdened Me with your sins;
you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

When My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath on them, I will be appeased. Then after I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in My jealousy.

Look, I am about to crush you in your place
as a wagon full of sheaves crushes grain.

You have wearied the Lord

with your words.

Yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?”

When you say, “Everyone who does what is evil is good in the Lord’s sight, and He is pleased with them,” or “Where is the God of justice?”

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction?

But by the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Your land

“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities; look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them

They have made their land a horror,
a perpetual object of scorn;

everyone who passes by it will be horrified
and shake his head.

I will make them an object of horror and disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace, an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing, wherever I have banished them.

This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.

I will make this temple like Shiloh. I will make this city an object of cursing for all the nations of the earth.”

I will do this because they have not listened to My words”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“that I sent to them with My servants the prophets time and time again.

And you too have not listened.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for My name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

ס SamekAll who pass by
scornfully clap their hands at you.
They mock

and shake their heads

at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?

He has carried out His words that He spoke against us and against our rulers

by bringing on us so great a disaster that nothing like what has been done to Jerusalem has ever been done under all of heaven.