Too Little Too Late?
- God explains that at this point he wouldn't forgive his people even if Moses and Samuel themselves came back and begged for mercy for them.
- The people should simply suffer their fate.
- Partly as punishment for the evil king Manasseh's wrongdoing, God will send wild animals and birds to drag away and eat the bodies of those killed during the war.
- No one will have pity on Judah, since they've rejected God.
- The women and mothers have all been destroyed, and the same will happen to their children.
- Jeremiah wishes he was never born. People curse him and see him as just a troublemaker.
- God says that he's going to continue to protect him. It'll get better.
- But not for everyone else. They'll be plundered and destroyed, and whoever's left will be sent into exile.
- Jeremiah asks God to have mercy on him and kill all his persecutors and enemies.
- Jeremiah liked God's words, but he's also had to deal with insults about being a Debbie Downer for breaking the bad news to everyone on God's behalf. Nobody wants him around.
- He tells God he's been like a "deceitful brook" to him; he's been unreliable.
- Yowza. Way to insult the God of Israel to his face.
- Again, God reassures Jeremiah that he won't let his persecutors harm him. Sticks and stones…