The Voice of Jeremiah’s Cry: O America, I wish my head were a well of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I could cry day and night for you, my people, who will soon be slaughtered. Oh, that I could go away and forget you, my people, and live in a shack for travelers in the desert. You are all unfaithful, a mob of traitors—a pack of treacherous liars always ready to tell lies! Dishonesty instead of truth rules the land!
O America, you do one evil thing after another and do not acknowledge the LORD as your God! Therefore beware of your neighbor! Be on guard against your friends! Don’t even trust your relatives; for relative takes advantage of relative and everyone slanders his friends. You all fool and mislead each other; no one tells the truth! You have taught your tongues to lie and will not give up your sinning! You do one violent thing after another, and one deceitful act follows another! You dwell in the midst of deceit; through deceit you utterly refuse to know the LORD![1]
Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I will refine them! I will melt them by the process of affliction to remove the dross and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of My people? For their tongues shoot lies like poisoned arrows. They speak friendly words to their neighbors while scheming in their heart to lay a snare and ambush them. Should I not punish them for this?” says the LORD. “Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?” [2]
Thus says the LORD: America “Your own wickedness shall punish and correct you, and your turning from Me and desertion of faith shall condemn you; Know therefore and recognize that this is an evil and bitter thing: first, you have forsaken the Lord your God; second, you are indifferent to Me and the fear of Me is not in you. You will learn how bitter and wrong it is to abandon Me, the Lord your God, and no longer to remain faithful to Me. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”[3]
[1] Jer. 9:1-6; [2] Jer. 9:7-9; [3] Jer. 2:19
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