🕊️ Jeremiah 5

Jeremiah 5 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.” Jeremiah 5 opens with these words: ““Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there…” The line to keep is Jeremiah 5:24: “They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the…” Carry the word “heart” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is Jeremiah 5:24: “They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in Jeremiah 5? Then try this: Read “They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.