Major Prophets
What should a child notice in Jeremiah 9?
Jeremiah 9 opens with these words: “Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!” The line to keep is Jeremiah 9:8: “Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.” Carry the word “tongue” from that verse into the rest of the day. A sentence to keep is Jeremiah 9:8: “Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.” What happens first in Jeremiah 9?
Jeremiah 9:8
“Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.”
Jeremiah 9:3
““They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.”
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Say it
Practice Jeremiah 9:8
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Theirisaarrow.Itspeaksdeceit.Onespeakstohisneighborwithhismouth,butinhisheart,hewaitstoambushhim.