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Jeremiah: Chapters 16-17 — August 16, 2026
Last week Jeremiah called God a stream that runs dry and his own wound incurable. This week God uses that same word of the human heart — "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" (Jer. 17:9) — and then, five verses later, the man with the incurable wound asks to be healed anyway: "Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed" (Jer. 17:14). He even gives God back the name he'd thrown at Him as an accusation, calling Him the fountain of living waters (Jer. 17:13). Chapter 16 is how he got there. God takes away his wife, his funerals, and his feasts, until there's nothing ordinary left to…
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