“The word of Yahweh
Came to Jeremiah.
‘See!
I am Yahweh!
The God of all flesh!
Is anything too hard for me?’
Therefore,
Thus says Yahweh.
‘I am going to give this city
Into the hands of the Chaldeans.
I am going to give this city
Into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar
Of Babylon.
He shall take it.
The Chaldeans,
Who are fighting against this city,
Shall come.
They will set this city on fire.
They will burn it.
They will burn the houses
On whose roofs
Offerings were made
To Baal,
Where libations
Have been poured out
To other gods.
They did these sacrifices
To provoke me to anger.’”
Yahweh once again has an oracle for Jeremiah. Yahweh was the God of all flesh. There was nothing too hard for him. He was going to give Jerusalem over to the Chaldeans who were fighting there. He was going to hand the city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. The Babylonians and the Chaldeans were going to set the city on fire and burn it down. Thus the houses with the roof tops that had made offerings to Baal or libations to the other gods would be destroyed. These Israelites had offered these sacrifices to provoke Yahweh to anger. They had succeeded.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 