Jeremiah 15:5-9 - Who will mourn for you

15:5-7

The church often does things in a vain attempt to be more popular with the world, in doing this it increasingly drifts away from God’s word, and so from God. Eventually this leads to disaster, and then he world which the church so assiduously courted will not do a thing to help the church. Judah would experience the same phenomenon. She had looked to the other nations for help, the result of abandoning God would be a disaster, much of this would be at the hands of other nations. Why would all this happen? The answer is in 15:7 “for they have not changed their ways”.

15:8,9

The promise to Abraham was that his descendants would be more numerous than the grains of sand, that is the fruit of faith. The fruit of faithlessness is that it is widows who expand in numbers. So the men would die first, but then the mothers and other survivors would die.