All right, what we're about to see here in this chapter is why it is that Jeremiah is

affectionately referred to as the weeping prophet. Now, from chapter 7 on through chapter

10, Jeremiah is publicly prophesying to Judah at the gates entering the

temple there in Jerusalem. So we've got two more chapters of this. I don't want to say it

like that, but Lord willing, next week we will try,

keyword try to do both chapters 9 and chapter 10. But I wanted to just take and tackle

chapter 8. I think you're going to see why here shortly but sadly this prophecy that

Jeremiah proclaims is about God's judgment coming upon his people all because they refuse

to repent and return to the Lord.

Now we're going to write out of the shoot here, verse one.

It's pretty intense, but here we go.

At that time, says the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones

of its princes and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets and the bones of the

inhabitants of Jerusalem out of their grapes.

You have to understand that in that culture at that time, this would have been unthinkable,

abhorrent. Because in that culture, and really modern day as well, you had to bury the dead.

And now the prophecy is that they're going to dig and dig up the bones of the dead.

Well, what are they going to do with them?

What we're told in verse 2, they shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the hosts

of heaven which they have loved and which they have served, and after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have

worshipped. That's why. They shall not be gathered nor buried. They shall be like refuse on the face of the earth. Now, by a way of a preface, and

again, I know this is kind of an intense way to start. It's important to understand

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