Today, I am reading and commenting on  Jeremiah 49-50.

It is not clear when Jeremiah gave the prophecies against various nations listed in today’s passage.  However, what is noteworthy is that Jeremiah prophesied that God would use Babylon to bring judgement against the nations which neighbored Israel, then He would bring judgement against Babylon.  So, while God used Babylon to bring judgement on the wicked in many lands, He did not approve the way in which they oppressed the people in the lands they conquered.  I really struggled with what this passage said to me today until it finally hit me: Jeremiah prophesied against the people of Judah and called on them to forsake their wicked ways.  He said again and again that God would allow the Babylonians to destroy the city of Jerusalem if its people did not repent.  Yet, at no time did he say that any of the peoples around them were righteous.  Here he declares that God will pour out His judgement against them as well, and against the Babylonians whom He used to end the wickedness of these other nations.  Jeremiah called on the people of Judah to do what was right/  He did not call on them to imitate any other nation.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.