Jeremiah 4:1-4

If we turn from evil, ask for forgiveness and seek God we will be healed!

What does God require of us?

To be fair.

To forgive easily.

And to be humble. Micah 6:8

What does God hate?

Pride and arrogance.

Circumcision was the sign of Israel’s covenant devotion to Yahweh, the outward symbol that identified them as a people set apart. Physical circumcision was intended to be an external sign of a changed heart. The concept of circumcision of the heart highlights both the intent of the external circumcision and Israel’s failure to actually give Yahweh the devotion represented by the act. Repentance involves a clean break with idolatry. Faithlife Bible.

The results of Israel’s justice and righteousness would have international consequences. Other nations would be blessed through his descendants. Israel needed a new field in which to sow its seed of faithfulness, a radical departure from its ways of sin and idolatry. Jeremiah’s stern warning of judgment is given with the picture of an unquenchable fire. If the people did not repent of evil, destruction would come. NKJ Bible.

Jeremiah 4:1–4 (NKJV)

4 “If you will return, O Israel,” says the Lord,

“Return to Me;

And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight,

Then you shall not be moved.

² And you shall swear, ‘The Lord lives,’

In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness;

The nations shall bless themselves in Him,

And in Him they shall glory.”

³ For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:

“Break up your fallow ground,

And do not sow among thorns.

⁴ Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,

And take away the foreskins of your hearts,

You men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,

Lest My fury come forth like fire,

And burn so that no one can quench it,

Because of the evil of your doings.”

Hosea 10:12 (NKJV)

¹² Sow for yourselves righteousness;

Reap in mercy;

Break up your fallow ground,

For it is time to seek the Lord,

Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.

Zechariah 8:8 (NKJV)

⁸I will bring them back,

And they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem.

They shall be My people

And I will be their God,

In truth and righteousness.’