Day 206, 207, 208 - Fall of Babylon and the nations

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Today’s Reading

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

Reflection |

Today -  

J = Jeremiah From the Book of Jeremiah (NRSVA)

Chapter 39 - Jerusalem falls.

Chapter 40 - J is released;  Gedaliah rise and fall; 

Chapter 41 - Battle

Chapter 42 - Johanan flees to Egypt

Chapter 43 - J predicts the rule of Babylon

Chapter 44 - Disaster and the divine purpose of it

Chapter 45 - J speaks to Baruch and tells what God will
Break down - God will build up.

Chapter 46 - J speaks of the fate of the nations; against
Egypt - two oracles.

Chapter 47 - against Philistia

Chapter 48 - against Moab - it will be destroyed.

Chapter 49 - against Ammon - it is a waste and ask for
forgiveness. Damascus, Kedar, Hazor.

Chapter 50 - Against Babylon and its destruction; Israel and
Judah are restored; Babylon gets God’s vengeance; Israel is pleaded.

Chapter 51 - Against Babylon - it is destroyed.

Chapter 52 - fall and looting of Jerusalem

(NOAB 5 notes)

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 |

7/28/2019  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.