Day 202 & Day 203 - I Will Restore Them.

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Today’s Reading

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

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

Reflection |

Today -  

J = Jeremiah From the Book of Jeremiah (NRSVA)

Chapter 21 - King - Will God give us a miracle against Babylon?  J- NO!
God will help them to defeat you!  I am even against the House of
David.

Chapter 22 - God via J - Repent! Woe to the sons of Josiah (the Great).
You have been bad and will be punished.

Chapter 23 - God via J - I will restore you after the Exile - David’s line will
rule again. God condemns the prophets as false. I will bring you
disgrace.

Chapter 24 - God & J - two baskets of figs - good and bad. I will restore
the good in exile. God will judge the other leaders badly.

Chapter 25 - God via J - You will be sent into Exile in Babylon! They will
drink of a cup of wrath - the Lord will roar from on high! Wail...

Chapter 26 - God via J - You priests and prophets will die! J- amend your
ways and have faith in God.

Chapter 27 - God via J - Make a yoke and show it to everyone - I have
given you to Babylon. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you different.
A prophet broke the yoke - you will die. He did.

Chapter 28 - God via J - J writes the Exiles - Build houses and live life in Babylon after 70 years I will bring you back. I will restore you. Shemaiah
is a liar and I will punish even his descendants.

Chapter 29 - God via J - I have heard the cries of the people and I will
restore them in due time. I will break the yoke of oppression.

(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.