Category: Daily Devotion

  I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the Lord. Jeremiah 51:24 – While a very long chapter to read through, the message of it isn’t difficult to find. Babylon was to be destroyed. This nation that had…

  In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant. Jeremiah 50:20 – Our chapter today speaks to the destruction of the enemy of God’s people…

  Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him. Jeremiah 49:8 – In this chapter we see the Lord have messages for many nations that surrounded Judah, and the messages were ones of destruction. These nations had…

  Moab has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his dregs; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed. Jeremiah 48:11 – In making wine at this time in history they would place…

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down Gaza. Jeremiah 47:1 – In our chapter we are seeing the Lord speak against the Philistines, and the words He speaks were heavy. Terror like never before would reach their cities and the sword of the Lord…

  Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant. Jeremiah 46:19 – Essentially what the Lord was saying was pack your bags for your exile is certain. The majority of this book has been God’s message directed at the people of Judah, yet now we are going…

  The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: 2 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: Jeremiah 45:1-2 – Baruch was the scribe Jeremiah…

  As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you. Jeremiah 44:16 – If nothing else, we have to give it to the people of Judah for their honesty. There wasn’t any façade put on here, no pretending to be a follower of God…

  And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at Tahpanhes. Jeremiah 43:7 – In the previous chapter we see the people and leaders within Judah reaching out to Jeremiah to have him seek out the Lord’s direction on what to do next after…