Day 201 - Complaints, Predictions, Judgment

Jeremiah, as depicted by Michelangelo from the Sistine Chapel ceiling

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Today’s Reading

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

Reflection |

Today -  

Chapter 17 - There is a drought coming. J complains again.
God instructs him to go.

Chapter 18 - God takes J to a potter and gives him a lesson.
God says I will take what I build and destroy it. I will build
And plant as I will. I will condemn evil.

Chapter 19 - God tells J to go to the rulers and tell of the
Destruction of the nation. J brings a jug and breaks its and
tells of destruction.

Chapter 20 - J sings a complaint to God. Why is this happening
to me? Why do I have to be the prophet?

(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 |

7/23/2019  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.