Today is the fourth day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian and it is a joy to be back together around the global campfire again today, today and every day.

As we center ourselves around the scriptures come together in community and allow the Holy Spirit to work through the scriptures and transforming our lives all over the place and enjoy that this place exists and that we can come here and find a place around the global campfire and move forward together.

We began the book of Jeremiah yesterday. We talked about that then and so we'll continue that journey today. We also concluded Paul's letter to the Philippians yesterday.

So that means that when we get to the New Testament today we will move into New Territory and that New Territory is another of the letters of Paul.

This one to the church at Colossi also known as Colossians and we'll talk about that when we get there but first let's dive back into Jeremiah.

We're reading from the new international version this week. Jeremiah chapter 2 verse 31 through 4 verse 18.

You of this generation consider the word of the Lord. Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say we are free to roam? We will come to you no more.

Does a young woman forget her jewelry? A bride or wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me. Days without number. How skilled you are at pursuing love.

Even the worst of women can learn from your ways. On your clothes is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in.

Yet in spite of all this you say, I am innocent. He is not angry with me. But I will pass judgment on you because you say I have not sinned.

Why do you go about so much changing your ways? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria. You will also leave that place with your hands on your head. For the Lord has rejected those you trust.

You will not be helped by them. If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers.

Would you now return to me, declares the Lord? Look up to the barren heights and sea. Is there any place where you have not been ravished?

By the roadside you sat waiting for lovers, sat like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Therefore the showers have been without and no spring rains have fallen. If you have the brazen look of a prostitute, you refuse to blush with shame.

Have you not just called to me, my father, my friend from my youth, will you always be angry? Will your wrath continue forever?

This is how you talk, but you do all the evil you can.

During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me,

have you seen what Faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.

I thought that after she had done all this, she would return to me, but she did not. And her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

I gave Faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear.

She also went out and committed adultery.

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