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CHAPTER 5
Jeremiah recites in prayer the sorrowful estate of Zion. |
Jeremiah recites in prayer the sorrowful current estate and state of Zion—He submits the need for and appeals to the application of mercy in the cure of turning the people to the Lord by the Lord turning to the needs of his people. | |
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1 REMEBER, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to astrangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. |
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4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks are under apersecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
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7 Our afathers have
asinneda, and
are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. 9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. |
7a Our fathers have sinned This seems to be a universal 'cop out'. It was the cry in Jesus' own day that the Jews so stated that they knew that their 'fathers' had stoned and rejected the prophets, but they said that if they had lived in those days of the prophets they would have not done so. But then, like all who avoid responsibility for their own failings and sins, those Jews of Jesus day did also not only reject and kill the 'prophets', John the Baptist, Stephen, and many of the saints and apostles; but they also did reject and kill even God, Jesus Christ the Son Jehovah who had come among them. This we ought to consider before we attempt to pass our own sins upon another. Look to thine own self to repent and correct, and do not so judge another. Behold the beam in thine own eye and take care of thine own business rather than putting down or blaming another. Just as men will be punished for their own sins and not Adam's transgressions, even so one is not punished for the sins of their fathers, but for their own transgressions. It is the atonement of Christ which performs against this falsehood of being held for another's trangresions, even Adam's, for he hath suffered for the sins of the world and even we and our own transgressions may be forgiven if we look to ourselves and taken care of that business at 'home' of repenting of and receiving forgiveness for our own transgressions. So do not look to the sins of another but look upon thine own self and repeat and therein be so forgiven. | |
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10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. |
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13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
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16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. 18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. |
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19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? |
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21 aTurn thou us unto thee, O
LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. |
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