Day 199 & Day 200 - Exile is Coming

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Today’s Reading

7/18/2019  Day 199   Jeremiah 8:18 – 12:17

7/19/2019  Day 200   Jeremiah 13:1 – 16:21

Reflection |

Today -  

Chapter 8 - My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick.

Chapter 9 - I wish I could weep all day long for Zion. People
mourn about judgment; God mourns.

Chapter 10 - Idolatry has brought ruin to Israel. You are great Lord.
The coming exile...

Chapter 11 - Israel and Judah have left God. Jeremiah’s life is
threatened. God will punish those who threaten you.

Chapter 12 - Jeremiah complains; God says they have left me…
but I will bring them back.

Chapter 13 - Of loincloths, wine jars, exile is threatened. I have
seen your abominations - woe to you Jerusalem!

Chapter 14 - Drought predicted. False prophets. People plead for
mercy. 

Chapter 15 - Sorry - the punishment will happen; Jeremiah complains
again but God will save and deliver.

Chapter 16 - God to Jeremiah - Don’t take a wife or have children,
it will be bad. God will restore Israel.

(Biblegateway.com)

Background | 

Background by Center of Biblical Studies.  

More background by My Jewish Learning.

Jeremiah give judgement to the people and hope. Lived during
the golden age of King Josiah but also the exile to Babylon. Tone
tends to be on the judgemental side.

Outline

Chapter 1 –> God’s Call to Jeremiah

Chapters 2 – 35 –> warnings and exhortations against Judah
about the Exile

Chapters 36 - 38 -> Jeremiah’s own struggles

Chapters 39 – 45 -> recounting the history of the Exodus

Chapters 46 – 51 -> Judgements against the nations & Babylon

Chapter 52 -> recounts fall of Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:27-30)
(Peter Ennes, Jeremiah, the Center for Biblical Studies)

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The Next Days of Readings |

7/20/2019  Day 201   Jeremiah 17:1 – 20:18

7/21/2019  Day 202   Jeremiah 21:1 – 24:10

7/22/2019  Day 203   Jeremiah 25:1 – 29:32

7/23/2019  Day 204   Jeremiah 30:1 – 33:26

7/24/2019  Day 205   Jeremiah 34:1 – 38:28 

7/25/2019  Day 206   Jeremiah 39:1 – 45:5

7/26/2019  Day 207   Jeremiah 46:1 – 49:39

7/27/2019  Day 208   Jeremiah 50:1 – 52:34

7/28/2019  Day 209   Lamentations 1:1 – 2:22

7/29/2019  Day 210   Lamentations 3:1 – 5:22

7/30/2019  Day 211   Ezekiel 1:1 – 5:17

7/31/2019  Day 212   Ezekiel 6:1 – 11:25

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A Prayer Attributed to St. Francis

Lord, make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is discord, union;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

Grant that we may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love. 

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.