NOTES for Jer 14:7

The prophet Jeremiah dialogues with God. Sometimes he speaks on his behalf, sometimes on behalf of the Israeli people. And God answers and to Jeremiah, and to the people. No, not like that. More exactly: God calls the prophet and speaks to him, addressing either him personally, or through him to the people.

And here is we read what Jeremiah brings to God on behalf of the people. Yes, repentance. The real repentance, in which, except the awareness of one’s sin, there is a conversion to God as to the One, Who can make something to remedy the situation. Let us notice that here there is no slightest attempt of self-justification or the research of the reasons of our iniquities - only an observation. And hope on God: that He will do something with us "for His name’s sake" - not for our past merits and qualities, but exceptionally by His internal essence.

Well, all this about repentance - and suits completely and for our time. But here we are, there is a couple of questions, on which it seems to me, will be necessary to think about: which right Jeremiah has to bring repentance in the name of a whole nation? And still: what to do, if you see the apostasy and the iniquities of the people, and there is no national repentance, the repentance of the people?