The warnings to Judah's people continue. Rogue shepherds will trample its vineyards, turning pleasant pasture into parched and desolate wasteland because there is no one left to care about it or take care for it. These shepherds are Babylon's armies which arrive decades after Jeremiah is writing. There is still time to turn the ship around, but no one appears to be listening. If they are, they don't take Jeremiah seriously. He is a ranting holy man, and they have plenty of sane prophets tel...
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The warnings to Judah's people continue. Rogue shepherds will trample its vineyards, turning pleasant pasture into parched and desolate wasteland because there is no one left to care about it or take care for it. These shepherds are Babylon's armies which arrive decades after Jeremiah is writing. There is still time to turn the ship around, but no one appears to be listening. If they are, they don't take Jeremiah seriously. He is a ranting holy man, and they have plenty of sane prophets tel...
It's easy to see the Bible as fable, a kind of religious fairy tale with a moralistic sting in its tail. Passages like this one show that much of the book is rooted in actual historical events. These chapters are a snapshot of the late eighth century BC Middle East. The prophet Isaiah is begging the king of one of these nations (Ahaz of Judah) not to enter an alliance with two others (Israel and Aram) against the threat of an invasion from the Assyrian Empire. Instead, Ahaz should rely on God...
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The warnings to Judah's people continue. Rogue shepherds will trample its vineyards, turning pleasant pasture into parched and desolate wasteland because there is no one left to care about it or take care for it. These shepherds are Babylon's armies which arrive decades after Jeremiah is writing. There is still time to turn the ship around, but no one appears to be listening. If they are, they don't take Jeremiah seriously. He is a ranting holy man, and they have plenty of sane prophets tel...
