Tears That Preach Christ
17 “You shall say to them this word:
‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease,
for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
with a very grievous blow.
18 If I go out into the field,
behold, those pierced by the sword!
And if I enter the city,
behold, the diseases of famine!
For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
and have no knowledge.’”
Jeremiah 14:17-18
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Tears That Preach Christ
Jeremiah is given no distance from the suffering he proclaims. His eyes run with tears because the people’s sin has brought real judgment, famine, sword, and exile. This grief reflects both the prophet’s compassion and the Lord’s own sorrow over His people. God is not indifferent; He mourns what sin has done. Yet these tears do more than lament, they preach. They reveal the depth of our condition under sin: no corner of life untouched, no refuge found in ourselves. The fields fail, the cities crumble, and even the prophets and priests are helpless. But Jeremiah’s weeping points us forward to Christ. For there is another who wept over Jerusalem and then bore its judgment in His own body on the cross. There, sorrow and mercy meet. In Jesus, God’s tears become salvation. His cross is the answer to Jeremiah’s grief, and ours.
‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day,
and let them not cease,
for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound,
with a very grievous blow.
18 If I go out into the field,
behold, those pierced by the sword!
And if I enter the city,
behold, the diseases of famine!
For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
and have no knowledge.’”
Jeremiah 14:17-18
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Tears That Preach Christ
Jeremiah is given no distance from the suffering he proclaims. His eyes run with tears because the people’s sin has brought real judgment, famine, sword, and exile. This grief reflects both the prophet’s compassion and the Lord’s own sorrow over His people. God is not indifferent; He mourns what sin has done. Yet these tears do more than lament, they preach. They reveal the depth of our condition under sin: no corner of life untouched, no refuge found in ourselves. The fields fail, the cities crumble, and even the prophets and priests are helpless. But Jeremiah’s weeping points us forward to Christ. For there is another who wept over Jerusalem and then bore its judgment in His own body on the cross. There, sorrow and mercy meet. In Jesus, God’s tears become salvation. His cross is the answer to Jeremiah’s grief, and ours.
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