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God’s prophet sees desolation:corpses and dead men’s bones.

BibleGateway: Jeremiah 7:28-8:3

ESV Text: Jeremiah 7:28-8:3


KJV Text:

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28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

     29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. 32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. 33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. 34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.(KJV)


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     1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.(KJV)


Hymn: TLH 610:
And Will the Judge Descend

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1. And will the Judge descend, 
And must the dead arise 
And not a single soul escape 
His all-discerning eyes? 

2. And from His righteous lips 
Shall this dread sentence sound 
And thro’ the num’rous guilty throng 
Spread black despair around: 

3. “Depart from Me, accursed, 
To everlasting flame, 
For rebel angels first prepared, 
Where mercy never came”? 

4. How will my heart endure 
The terrors of that Day 
When earth and heav’n before His face 
Astonished shrink away? 

5. But ere that trumpet shakes 
The mansions of the dead, 
Hark from the Gospel’s cheering sound 
What joyful tidings spread: 

6. Ye sinners, seek His grace 
Whose wrath ye cannot bear; 
Fly to the shelter of His cross 
And find salvation there.