Tuesday

Read Jeremiah 8:18-9:1

¹⁸My sorrow cannot be healed;^h

I am sick at heart.

¹⁹Listen! Throughout the land

I hear my people crying out,

“Is the Lord no longer in Zion?

Is Zion’s king no longer there?”

The Lord, their king, replies,

“Why have you made me angry by worshipping your idols

and by bowing down to your useless foreign gods?”

²⁰The people cry out,

“The summer is gone, the harvest is over,

but we have not been saved.”

²¹My heart has been crushed

because my people are crushed;

I mourn; I am completely dismayed.

²²Is there no medicine in Gilead?ⁱ

Are there no doctors there?

Why, then, have my people not been healed?

9 I wish my head were a well of water,

and my eyes a fountain of tears,

so that I could cry day and night

for my people who have been killed.

Jeremiah expresses his sadness - Jerusalem is destroyed, Israel is falling apart - the people cry out to God but God answers with a question:

"Why have you made me angry by worshipping your idols and by bowing down to your useless foreign gods?"

My heart has been crushed because my people are crushed; I mourn; I am completely dismayed... - Jeremiah 8:22

Bring the brokenness of the world around you to God in heartfelt prayer.