For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
The land is full of people who are unfaithful; because of their cursing and broken promises, the land grieves. The beautiful places in the wilderness have dried up, their way of life is evil, and they use their power wrongly.
The writer is saying that widespread unfaithfulness and corruption have brought judgment and desolation upon the land itself.
📚 Historical Context
In the time of the prophet Jeremiah, around the 6th century BC, Judah was experiencing widespread moral and spiritual decline under corrupt leaders and false prophets, as the nation faced the threat of Babylonian invasion. This verse describes the consequences of sins like adultery (both literal and spiritual unfaithfulness) and oath-breaking, which Jeremiah portrays as causing the land to mourn through drought and desolation as a form of divine judgment. Jeremiah was calling the people to repentance to avoid the impending exile that would soon devastate the nation.
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