Chapter 16 - A New Exile, A New Return

There is more dire warning here, more talk of judgment, more death. It is true that it can be difficult to read some parts of the Bible. In Christian faith we get through often because we can read with the truth and person of Jesus in mind. It is in Jesus that the love of God is fully revealed. It is in Jesus that the pathos of God is answered, completed and relieved.  
In the book of Jeremiah it is stark.  
Here, in this chapter, we see God again speaking words of warning and judgment, but there is also talk of a new exile and a new exodus. Warning warning warning, that the people will be thrown into a foreign land not their own, but foretelling of a return that will be remembered as a new exodus, a return from exile.  

Dear God; Show me how the fullness of sin, judgment, forgiveness and redemption are realized in Jesus Christ. Forgive me my sin and lead me in the way of love. In Jesus’ name.  Amen. 

Jeremiah 16: 19 “O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in day of trouble.”