078. Jeremiah Prayeth And Teacheth His People How To View Calamity.

Jeremiah Prayeth And Teacheth His People How To View Calamity. The Prayer as recorded.—Jeremiah 10:23-25.

Rebellious under trial, and disinclined, the people are invited by the prophet to God’s throne in prayer, to the only source of strength and power. They had indeed great need of support, for grievous were their present troubles. The haughty Nebuchadnezzar hearing of Zedekiah’s rebellion, came with all his power against Jerusalem, and his forces were too strong to be resisted. The Egyptians on whom the Jews had relied for help failed to assist them; the Chaldeans were marching directly to Judea; this explains the phrase, “the noise of the bruit.” The prophet prays that God would remember them in love. The phrase “They have eaten up Jacob,” refers to the idolatrous nations who had oppressed Jacob his people.