Reading for August 9th

The broken family Chs. 2-3: A story of a broken family underlies and unifies the poetry and prose of this section. The account of this family functions as a summary of the whole boook in symbolic form. God appears as husband and father, betrayed, brokenhearted and in search of reconcilation with his unfaithful wife and children. Read Jeremiah 2.1-3. God speaks and addresses his wife, remembering how good it was during their honeymoon. Then God addresses male Israel in similar words. Israel was holy to the Lord. Both female and male were set apart and protected. Comments or Questions..