Jeremiah, one of the major prophets, served between 627 and 586 BCE. One of his constant themes was that wishful thinking without righteous behavior would lead the nation into destruction.

• Jer22_1-2 What Do You See

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  The calling of Jeremiah. The first of his visions depicts God being faithful to His own word and the second, a northward facing boiling pot, prefigures the Babylonian invasion that would sweep Judah and Jerusalem away into exile.

• Jer22_3-4 Faithless Wife

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  Here God talks of the spiritual adultery of Israel and declares that her sister Judah is worse. At the time of the prophecy Israel had been in exile for over a century and Judah had not yet been exiled to Babylon. Even though God declares all of the reasons for His sorrow, He also promises a return and a reunification of the two houses.