Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"I will break this people and this city"
Text: Jeremiah 19:11
THE DRAMATIC BREAKING OF THE FLASK
This message was preached to the leaders of Judah. They were regarded as “elders of the people” and “elders of the priests” (Jeremiah 19:1). These were also the people who could have helped Judah to return to God. But they had been resistant to the Lord’s word.
“Then you shall break the flask
in the sight of the men who go with you, and say to them,
‘Thus says the LORD of hosts:
‘Even so I will break this people and this city,
as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot be made whole again;
and they shall bury them in Tophet till there is no place to bury.
Thus I will do to this place,’ says the LORD,
‘and to its inhabitants, and make this city like Tophet.
And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah
shall be defiled like the place of Tophet,
because of all the houses on whose roofs
they have burned incense to all the host of heaven,
and poured out drink offerings to other gods.””
Jeremiah 19:10-13