{"id":72219,"date":"2020-03-23T09:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T07:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=72219"},"modified":"2020-03-23T09:13:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T07:13:58","slug":"you-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/you-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"You Lie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"72219","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38552,"related_cahpter":"443","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The people reject Jeremiah\u2019s despair - and his hope\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah speaks unambiguously and confidently, echoing his very first prophecy, when God charged him with his life&#8217;s mission: \u201cI appoint you this day over nations and kingdoms: to uproot and tear down, to obliterate and destroy; to build and plant\u201d (1:10).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah has already witnessed the fulfillment of most of this prophecy. He has seen uprooting and tearing down, obliteration and destruction. But suddenly, he is filled with hope that the final part will now be fulfilled as well: &#8220;If you stay in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you; for I have relented from the disaster I have inflicted on you.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Jeremiah hears the people saying, &#8220;We cannot stay here.&#8221; They have no real intention of heeding the word of God. Their oath of ten days earlier was meaningless. Egypt sits on the Nile in peace and prosperity and beckons them. Upon this they pin their hopes and dreams. They perceive themselves not as refugees fleeing for their lives, but as immigrants. Jeremiah&#8217;s prayer on their behalf was thus based on a fundamental error. He flies into a rage against them and holds nothing back. He vents his frustration, his disappointment, his sense of betrayal at their request for the word of God, and his willingness to believe that, finally, the people wanted to connect with the word of God. So begins one of Jeremiah&#8217;s longest speeches, from verses 15 to 22. Everything finally bursts out \u2014 bitterness, humiliation, anger, and despair. The leaders of the flock behave wisely. They do not interrupt the prophet as he pours out his heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only afterward do they respond to Jeremiah&#8217;s boiling rage with chilling coolness: &#8220;You lie; the Lord, our God, has not sent you.&#8221; The word &#8220;lie,&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sheker<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, hits Jeremiah like a knockout punch. No prophet uses this term more. Of the 109 times it appears in Scripture, thirty-five occur in the Book of Jeremiah. And this is the only time it is directed against him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps the people are taken aback by the prophet&#8217;s transformation from a broken and listless shell of a man to a newly inspired and energetic spirit. Perhaps they assume that this about-face has been engineered by his young accomplice, who, after all, hails from a family of scribes well-known for their opposition to activism and preference for passivity. The decision to continue on to Egypt has been made. Jeremiah finds himself part of the convoy heading south.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lau, Binyamin. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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