Tag: Babylon

7 August 2020

  Ah! City of bloodshed, utterly deceitful, full of booty— no end to the plunder!…I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle.Then all who see you will shrink from you and say,‘Nineveh is devastated; who will bemoan her?’ Where shall I seek comforters for you? From Nahum 2:…
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3 August 2020

  The prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, ‘Listen, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you made this people trust in a lie.’ From Jeremiah 28: 1-17 The short extract chosen for today comes towards the end of the Reading and describes part of the final confrontation between Jeremiah and Hanahiah who…
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