Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Look, my anger and rage will be poured out on this place—on people and animals, on the trees in the fields and the crops in the ground. It will burn like fire and cannot be put out.
God is declaring that His burning anger will come upon the land and everything in it because of the people's disobedience, and this judgment cannot be stopped.
📚 Historical Context
Jeremiah spoke these words around 600 BC to the people of Judah who had repeatedly broken their covenant with God through idolatry and injustice. The nation was on the brink of destruction by Babylon, and God's patience with their unfaithfulness had reached its limit. This warning came as part of Jeremiah's temple sermon, where he confronted the people's false belief that they were safe simply because God's temple was in their city.
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