Jeremiah 8

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Jeremiah 8:1-22 (KJV) 

1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 

The army of the north, the cruel man God will use, will dig up the dead bones out of the graves of the kings of Judah,  the kings of Judah's princes, prophets, and the people that lived in Jerusalem:

These cruel men know nothing about kindness, they care nothing of the customs of the people they attack, yet they are the people God used to show Judah her wicked ways.  The wages of sin is death.  This wage never changed.  God loves us so much that he holds back his anger, hoping we will consider our ways.  Just because God has not judge us according to our behavior does not mean he has changed his mind about his judgment for our continuious sins.  (These  men who live life as a sport to do evil, may have consider digging the dead bones for jewels.)  

2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 

They will leave these bones day and night in the open because when they were alive they love the sun and the moon and that's who they worshiped; nobody will pick these bones up to bury them, they will be left in the open as waste.  What is a possible way of worshipping the sun and moon?  When I think of worship, I think of giving attention to:  If I do what is right in daylight then when it is dark and no one can see me, I pretend to be holy because I am being watched. Even the slightest light of the moon gives me an opportunity to pretend; I am still living a life of pretence because I have to keep my hypocritical image up because I cannot afford to let anyone see the real me.  There are those who worship the sun and are guided by the moon to make decisions.  Anytime we look away from the Word of God, we have made that object our idol.

3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. 

During this time the relatives of these evil people will want to die; if they were connected to these evil people God will make sure that their lives are full of trouble.

4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 

Jeremiah will question these people said the Lord; when you fall do you not get up? When you turn, do you not return?

5 Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 

If you know what to do when you fall or when you make a turn, why do you not return back to me? Why are you so stubborn to do wrong and refuse to do right?

6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 

I asked them questions and nobody gave me a right the right answers: nobody said what did I do wrong? could I be wrong? but instead, they ran right back into sin just like a horse when he is in battle he runs back to the battle.

7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

The stork, the turtle dove, the crane and the swallow know what to do in the right season, but my people do not know when they are in trouble because of their disobedience.   Birds know when it time to move into another region, but my people do not know my ways so they do not know when I am judging their behavior.

8 How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain. 

How do you tell yourself that you are wise in the word of God? Certainly you are taking notes and lying to yourselves.  Many. leaders  do not read the Word of God.  They spot read, meaning they pull from the testimomy of the book and feed the people of God wives tales.  Each book is a testimony of accounts that shows the truth of who God is.  When we take a verse or two here and there, we disfigure the truth.  When they crucified Jesus, they beat him unrecognizably and we do the same thing when pinch scriptures to make a motivating message to feed God's people.  We have distorted God's testimony until it too is unrecognizagle to God and to those who know the truth.  Many leaders sell their books to move people to think they are helping us in getting to know God.  We simply need to carefully read God's Word.  It is so irritating to see and hear how people read the Word of God.  It hurts because you cannot tell them often times, they are wrong.

9 The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

 Those who thought they knew more than the people they led are shocked because they are arrested: the words they spoke went along with them.

10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and] their fields to them that shall inherit [them]: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 

I will take the wives of the leaders and give them to somebody else, I will take what they own or what they inherited and give that to someone else: I'm gonna do this from the oldest to the youngest because nobody dealt right, everybody was lying.

11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace. 

Those who wanted to comfort people doing this time told lies saying nothing will happen nothing will happen to us.

12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

There was nobody ashamed of the things that they were doing, they show no regret: now they will fall with people who have already fallen: when I visit the sins of my people they will be cut down said the Lord.

13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: [there shall be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them. 

I will consume them: there will be no fruit and the fruits that was growing will stop growing; all of the good that I gave will be taken away.

14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. 

You will say let's be still because the Lord is against us and we will sit silently.   God has not given us pure water to drink because we are wrong.  Here we see that Judah is finally drawing to the conclusion that they have disobeyed God.  Although they sit silentlt, they will have a long sentence of judgement ahead of them.  God is not changing his mind concerning His judgement against Judah.

15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble! 

We search for peace but found nothing but trouble.

16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein. 

The cruel men who God told us about our here to attack us.

17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. 

God said he will send snakes among you and they will bite.

18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

Jeremiah said when my heart was overwhelmed I was fainting on the inside.

 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities? 

Now my church is crying because of the terrible attack from people from a far country: I am God but I my people refused to let me lead. Why did you provoke me to bring this evil upon you?

20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

A lot of time has passed and we are not saved.

 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. 

Jeremiah said I am hurt; I am black; the punishment of the people has gotten next to me.

Jeremiah looks deeply sadden becasue of what will happen to friends, and family.  Jeremiah saw the sins of Judah but he was being told what would happen to them later; but the hearing of their fate, was just as devistating as seeing it actually happening.

22 [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

The Word of God has the healing we need. Does anybody have a copy of the Word of God to bring health to the church?  Anyone who leads God's people without God's Word, lead the people into sickness and death.  We have the balm of healing, which is the Word of God.  However, few recognize the healing they need is as near as in their hands read carefully and correcly.