The Lord Will Avenge Israel, Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Today's reading is portions of Jeremiah 50, 51, 49 and 34.  The sound of the horsemen coming from the north to destroy Babylon is a powerful image.  As is the pain of a woman in labor.

"He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.  When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.  He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses."  Jeremiah 51:15, 16