Jeremiah 44:7-10

The Lord corrects those He loves and in His mercy He gives us many warnings ahead of time. If we refuse His refining we will die in our sins. God is always willing to take us back into His fold when we humble ourselves, admit to our sins and ask forgiveness.

Jerusalem had been warned time and again by faithful and tireless messengers from God. The reference here is to the people’s disobedience in continually worshiping foreign deities. This willful, stubborn rebellion against God roused His anger. The present generation of Jews had learned nothing from the past failures of the nation. The people were not broken in heart, only more stubborn.

Jeremiah 44:7-10

⁷ “Now therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving none to remain, ⁸ in that you provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? ⁹ Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁰ They have not been humbled, to this day, nor have they feared; they have not walked in My law or in My statutes that I set before you and your fathers.’