9:17-19
The use of professional mourners was a practice sometimes used in the Middle East, women would be paid to come and wail and funerals. God tells the nation that now is the time to call for the wailing women, for there would be much need for their services. The land would be completely ruined This in stark contrast to those who were proclaiming “peace, peace”. They would have to leave the land because of the destruction of their houses.
9:20-22
We can imagine verse 21 in the light of the Covid lockdowns, though the situation that Jeremiah is envisaging would be many times more severe than anything we have encountered so far, but we can at lease see how previously bustling city centres can become deserted. Death was about to rule over the land. The concept of death as the “grim reaper” comes from 9:22. The death toll would be horrendous.
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