Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"My eyes are on all their ways"
Text: Jeremiah 16:17
POWERFUL IMAGERY
Fishing and hunting were familiar professions in the nation of Judah. These are not leisure sport! The fishermen and hunters made a living out of their skills. Fishermen and hunters describe well the Egyptians and Babylonians who would invade the kingdom of Judah. The fishermen were the Egyptians. The hunters were the Babylonians.
“‘Behold, I will send for many fishermen,’ says the LORD,
‘and they shall fish them;
and afterward I will send for many hunters,
and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill,
and out of the holes of the rocks.
For My eyes are on all their ways;
they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.
And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin,
because they have defiled My land;
they have filled My inheritance with
the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols.'”
Jeremiah 16:16-18