Jeremiah 51 proclaims God's impending judgment on Babylon for its sins and idolatry. The chapter opens with a declaration of Babylon's downfall: "This is what the LORD says: 'See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Leb-kamai'" (Jeremiah 51:1)....
Chapter Summary INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 4 This chapter begins with several exhortations to repentance; first to Israel, or the ten tribes, to return to the Lord with their whole hearts, and put away their abominations, and serve him in sincerity and uprightness of soul; with promises of rest...
耶利米・斯坦勒(Jeremiah Stamler)的父母在给他取名时,不太可能预见到他的未来。但要是他们早知道,多年后儿子长大成人,会像《旧约》中的耶利米一样,向大众以及社会政策制定者宣讲他们的不足之处,不过不是关乎对耶和华的信仰偏差,而是个人健康习惯致使他们易患心脏病,那可就太有先见之明了。作为预防心脏病学的奠基...
Chapter Summary INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 11 This chapter gives an account of the covenant God had made with the people of the Jews; their breach of it; and the evils threatened them on that account; and particularly against the men of Anathoth, for their ill treatment of the prophet. It ...
Read full chapter Jeremiah 52:11-13 New International Version 11Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death. 12On the tenth day of the fifthmonth, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionAlthough you wash yourself with soap and use an abundance of cleansing powder, the stain of your guilt is still before me,” declares the Sovereign LORD.New Living TranslationNo amount of soap or lye can make you clean. I still see the stai...
Rueben Land Chapter Summary Chapter six- When Sorrows Like Sea Bellows Roll: Echoing the previous chapter’s allusions to parallels in Jeremiah’s and Davy’s lives, both find themselves in unfortunate situations. This reminds me of chapter two when Reuben says Davy is more of his fathers brot...
耶利米・斯坦勒(Jeremiah Stamler)的父母在给他取名时,不太可能预见到他的未来。但要是他们早知道,多年后儿子长大成人,会像《旧约》中的耶利米一样,向大众以及社会政策制定者宣讲他们的不足之处,不过不是关乎对耶和华的信仰偏差,而是个人健康习惯致使他们易患心脏病,那可就太有先见之明了。作为预防心脏病学的奠基...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionAgain and again I sent all my servants the prophets to you. They said, “Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and reform your actions; do not follow other gods to serve them. Then you will live in the land I have given to you...
Chapter Summary INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 31 This chapter is connected with the former, respects the same times, and is full of prophecies and promises of spiritual blessings; of the coming of Christ; of the multiplication of his people, and the increase of their joy; of the conversion of the...