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Jeremiah 
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Day 332

"For I will restore health to you"

Text: Jeremiah 30:17

GOD’S JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED OPPRESSORS

Israel may feel aggrieved because of God’s chastisement. But in comparison with the judgment God would mete out against the wicked oppressors, Israel has nothing to complain about.

“‘Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured;
And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
Those who plunder you shall become plunder,
And all who prey upon you I will make a prey.
For I will restore health to you
And heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD,
‘Because they called you an outcast saying:
‘This is Zion;
No one seeks her.””
Jeremiah 30:16-17

1. “Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured;
And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
Those who plunder you shall become plunder,
And all who prey upon you I will make a prey””

a) There will be Divine justice upheld.

b) This may also be called “poetic justice”.

i) Those who devoured Israel would be devoured.

ii) Those adversaries who captured Israel would become captives.

iii) Those who plundered God’s people would be plundered.

iv) Those who preyed on God’s people would become preys.

2. “‘For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD”

a) This was a solemn promise from the LORD.

b) He would restore health to Israel.

c) He would heal the nation of its many deep wounds.

3. “‘Because they called you an outcast saying: ‘This is Zion; no one seeks her””

a) This was a common saying among the nations.

b) Jerusalem was Zion.

i) This was a derogatory statement.

ii) The nations had despised Zion.

iii) They believed that no one would come and save Zion.

c) All were wrong!

d) The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel would seek and save Zion.