Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we open with Jeremiah continuing the plea for Judah to repent.

Throughout this section, we see God repeating the theme that he doesn't just want them to

change their actions or offer up empty sacrifices like vain apologies.

They've baked repentance before and he didn't buy it then either.

He's after their hearts.

We see it in verse 4 where he's comparing this change of heart to the way he marked

them with circumcision.

He says, remove the foreskin of your hearts.

And in verse 14, he says, oh Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil.

How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?

And in verse 19, your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you.

This is your doom and it is bitter.

It has reached your very heart.

Their sin yielded this consequence.

And God's problem with their sin goes far beyond their actions.

It goes to their very heart.

So his consequence is due too.

Then in verse 10, Jeremiah seems to be accusing God of lying.

It's a confusing time to be alive because up until this point, all the so-called profits

of the land have been telling all the people of Judah, they don't sweat it, things are

going to be fine.

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