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 faked repentance before and he didn't

buy it then either. He's after their hearts. We see it in verse four 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, 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 consequences do 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 prophets of the land have been telling all the people of Judah

hey don't sweat it things are gonna be fine they keep proclaiming peace and safety

when things are actually speeding toward a cliff at 100 miles an hour.

And this is the first time Jeremiah is actually hearing the truth,

and it's coming directly from God himself.

He seems to feel kind of disoriented by it all, but he eventually comes to realize that

those prophets weren't speaking the words of God. They were just saying what they thought

the people wanted to hear. I've had many a well-meaning prophecy

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