At the end of the last chapter Jeremiah had called on God to judge the people, now we get the judgement, and the reason for it. Absolute disaster would come upon the people, and the reason for it was that Judah had worshipped foreign gods. Now this was not some fit of pique, but because there is only one true God. Moreover, worshipping false gods has disastrous consequences. In the case of Judah it involved the people sacrificing children.
So destruction would come upon the people. The city would be devastated, and many would die, becoming carcasses for the birds. They would even end up eating their own children. This would happen because of the severity of the siege on the city. This actually happened and is recorded in historical records, similar things also happened in AD 70.
Jeremiah was then to smash the clay jar that he had taken as a demonstration of the utter destruction that was coming. Then Jeremiah stood in the temple courts proclaiming the judgement.
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