The horrendous outcome Jerusalem was to experience was their own making. Their sin against the Lord was so deeply ingrained. They had misbehaved and yet refused to change despite God’s many kind overtures. Here in the last four verses of Jeremiah 13, God described the doom of Jerusalem.
Verse 24 said that she would first be like chaff tossed by the desert wind, meaning they would be driven into captivity. And what they would experience was designed by the Lord Himself. It was the portion that the Lord would measure to them for their forgetfulness. Judah had chosen to forget the Lord and went trusting in falsehood.
Like an unfaithful loose woman who went flirting with her lover,
Judah was described in verse 27 as flirting with false gods. The word “neighings”
was used to show how passionate she was in their craving after false gods. She
was like an uncontrollable adulteress yearning for illicit sexual intimacy. These
imageries of lewdness were used because idols worship often included sexual
orgies with temple prostitutes at high places. Despite all the dire warnings,
Judah remained unmoved.
The last line of verse 27 leaves her with a haunting question “how
long will you remain unclean?” In much the same as Judah, we will remain
unclean as long as we also insist on our own way. Are there areas in our lives
that God has been speaking to us that we must quickly deal with? We need to be
careful about taking sins in our lives lightly. If we will deal with them swiftly, we will fall
to it little by little. Knowing where we are wrong will be pointless if we will
not take action to make it right
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