Jeremiah 9:14 - Prayer Tents

Jeremiah 9

9I wish my head were a well of water and my eyes fountains of tears So I could weep day and night for casualties among my dear, dear people.H5414H7218H4325H5869H4726H1832H1058H3119H3915H2491H1323H59712At times I wish I had a wilderness hut, a backwoods cabin, Where I could get away from my people and never see them again. They're a faithless, feckless bunch, a congregation of degenerates.H5414H4057H4411H732H5800H5971H3212H5003H6116H8983"Their tongues shoot out lies like a bow shoots arrows— A mighty army of liars, the sworn enemies of truth. They advance from one evil to the next, ignorant of me." GOD's Decree.H1869H3956H7198H8267H1396H530H776H3318H7451H7451H3045H5002H30684"Be wary of even longtime neighbors. Don't even trust your grandmother! Brother schemes against brother, like old cheating Jacob. Friend against friend spreads malicious gossip.H8104H376H7453H982H251H251H6117H6117H7453H1980H74005Neighbors gyp neighbors, never telling the truth. They've trained their tongues to tell lies, and now they can't tell the truth.H2048H376H7453H1696H571H3925H3956H1696H8267H3811H57536They pile wrong upon wrong, stack lie upon lie, and refuse to know me." GOD's Decree.H3427H8432H4820H4820H3985H3045H5002H30687Therefore, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies says: "Watch this! I'll melt them down and see what they're made of. What else can I do with a people this wicked?H559H3068H6635H6884H974H6213H6440H1323H59718Their tongues are poison arrows! Deadly lies stream from their mouths. Neighbor greets neighbor with a smile, 'Good morning! How're things?' while scheming to do away with him.H3956H2671H7819H1696H4820H1696H7965H7453H6310H7130H7760H6969Do you think I'm going to stand around and do nothing?" GOD's Decree. "Don't you think I'll take serious measures against a people like this?H6485H5002H3068H5315H5358H147110"I'm lamenting the loss of the mountain pastures. I'm chanting dirges for the old grazing grounds. They've become deserted wastelands too dangerous for travelers. No sounds of sheep bleating or cattle mooing. Birds and wild animals, all gone. Nothing stirring, no sounds of life.H2022H5375H1065H5092H4999H4057H7015H3341H376H5674H8085H6963H4735H5775H8064H929H5074H198011I'm going to make Jerusalem a pile of rubble, fit for nothing but stray cats and dogs. I'm going to reduce Judah's towns to piles of ruins where no one lives!"H5414H3389H1530H4583H8577H5414H5892H3063H8077H342712I asked, "Is there anyone around bright enough to tell us what's going on here? Anyone who has the inside story from GOD and can let us in on it? "Why is the country wasted? "Why no travelers in this desert?"H2450H376H995H6310H3068H1696H5046H776H6H3341H4057H567413GOD's answer: "Because they abandoned my plain teaching. They wouldn't listen to anything I said, refused to live the way I told them to.H3068H559H5800H8451H5414H6440H8085H6963H198014Instead they lived any way they wanted and took up with the Baal gods, who they thought would give them what they wanted—following the example of their parents."H3212H310H8307H3820H310H1168H1H392515And this is the consequence. GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies says so: "I'll feed them with pig slop. "I'll give them poison to drink.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H398H5971H3939H4325H7219H824816"Then I'll scatter them far and wide among godless peoples that neither they nor their parents have ever heard of, and I'll send Death in pursuit until there's nothing left of them."H6327H1471H1H3045H7971H2719H310H3615

A Life That Is All Outside but No Inside

17A Message from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies: "Look over the trouble we're in and call for help. Send for some singers who can help us mourn our loss.H559H3068H6635H995H7121H6969H935H7971H2450H93518Tell them to hurry— to help us express our loss and lament, Help us get our tears flowing, make tearful music of our crying.H4116H5375H5092H5869H3381H1832H6079H5140H432519Listen to it! Listen to that torrent of tears out of Zion: 'We're a ruined people, we're a shamed people! We've been driven from our homes and must leave our land!'"H6963H5092H8085H6726H7703H3966H954H5800H776H4908H799320Mourning women! Oh, listen to GOD's Message! Open your ears. Take in what he says. Teach your daughters songs for the dead and your friends the songs of heartbreak.H8085H1697H3068H802H241H3947H1697H6310H3925H1323H5092H802H7468H701521Death has climbed in through the window, broken into our bedrooms. Children on the playgrounds drop dead, and young men and women collapse at their games.H4194H5927H2474H935H759H3772H5768H2351H970H733922Speak up! "GOD's Message: "'Dead bodies everywhere, scattered at random like sheep and goat dung in the fields, Like wheat cut down by reapers and left to rot where it falls.'"H1696H5002H3068H5038H120H5307H1828H6440H7704H5995H310H7114H62223GOD's Message: "Don't let the wise brag of their wisdom. Don't let heroes brag of their exploits. Don't let the rich brag of their riches.H559H3068H2450H1984H2451H1368H1984H1369H6223H1984H623924If you brag, brag of this and this only: That you understand and know me. I'm GOD, and I act in loyal love. I do what's right and set things right and fair, and delight in those who do the same things. These are my trademarks." GOD's Decree.H1984H1984H7919H3045H3068H6213H2617H4941H6666H776H2654H5002H306825"Stay alert! It won't be long now"—GOD's Decree!—"when I will personally deal with everyone whose life is all outside but no inside:H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H4135H619026Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab. All these nations are big on performance religion—including Israel, who is no better."H4714H3063H123H1121H5983H4124H7112H6285H3427H4057H1471H6189H1004H3478H6189H3820