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Jeremiah 14:1-2 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
This dearth/famine/drought literally happened but is our example of what will again happen figuratively. Judah and Jerusalem, God's chosen, wear black because Judah, the house of Judah/Jews are in mourning as they mistakenly await their Savior while Jerusalem cries.
Judah and Jerusalem speak of all the tribes of Israel...the house of Judah and the house of Israel. The literal city of Jerusalem can be seen as being symbolic of believers...wherever we live in flesh. Judah and Jerusalem, Jew and Christian....God's children, mourn. Why?
Jeremiah 14:3-6 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
Seen literally...no water. See spiritually...no truth.
No water or grass to fill their vessels/their mind and body. The pits/cisterns to which they/we go to receive food that allows us to grow in His knowledge is....lacking. They are dry for many of the cisterns we rely on are of our own making and they are cracked.
Jeremiah 2:13 For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
The spiritual famine where we hear so few of His Words...rather we hear the words filling the cisterns, the words of man and they leave us dry...without life.
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Jeremiah 14:1-2 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
This dearth/famine/drought literally happened but is our example of what will again happen figuratively. Judah and Jerusalem, God's chosen, wear black because Judah, the house of Judah/Jews are in mourning as they mistakenly await their Savior while Jerusalem cries.
Judah and Jerusalem speak of all the tribes of Israel...the house of Judah and the house of Israel. The literal city of Jerusalem can be seen as being symbolic of believers...wherever we live in flesh. Judah and Jerusalem, Jew and Christian....God's children, mourn. Why?
Jeremiah 14:3-6 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass. And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
Seen literally...no water. See spiritually...no truth.
No water or grass to fill their vessels/their mind and body. The pits/cisterns to which they/we go to receive food that allows us to grow in His knowledge is....lacking. They are dry for many of the cisterns we rely on are of our own making and they are cracked.
Jeremiah 2:13 For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
The spiritual famine where we hear so few of His Words...rather we hear the words filling the cisterns, the words of man and they leave us dry...without life.
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