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Jeremiah

Jeremiah 
Day 
Day 192

"I am weary of relenting"

Text: Jeremiah 15:6

NO PITY FOR JERUSALEM

That God would remove Divine pity from Jerusalem was hard to comprehend for the children of Judah! Not even Jeremiah could fully fathom this reality!

“‘For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?
Or who will bemoan you?
Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?
You have forsaken Me,’ says the LORD,
‘You have gone backward.
Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
I am weary of relenting!'”
Jeremiah 15:5-6

1. Sobering questions

a) Pity
“For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?”
i) The captors would not take pity.
ii) God would not take pity too!
b) Bemoaning
“Or who will bemoan you?”
i) Where are the sympathizers?
ii) Not the conquerors.
iii) Not the LORD either.
c) “Or who will turn aside to ask how you are doing?”
i) Did Jerusalem have any allies left?
ii) No one would show any genuine concern for the children of Judah!

2. Two reasons were singled out

a) “‘You have forsaken Me,’ says the LORD”
i) The reality of forsaking God could not be denied.
ii) Judah had broken the Covenant God had given.
b) “You have gone backward”
i) They had gone backward to a life of wanton sinning.
ii) They had no signs of sorrow or repentance at all!

3. “Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am weary of relenting!”

a) God will exercise His divine Justice against the children of Judah.
i) He will stretch out His hand against them.
ii) He will destroy them.
b) Weary of relenting:
i) In the past, God would threaten and then relent.
ii) The people would express sorrow, a prophet would intercede on their behalf and God would relent (Psalm 78)
iii) But after relenting, the children of Israel would revert to their own sinful ways.
iv) God has had enough of this!
v) He used a term that all human beings employ time and again “I am weary of relenting!”
vi) God will not relent from His decision to exercise divine justice against Jerusalem and the children of Judah.