• 1:5 Christians often cite this verse as biblical proof that a fetus is a person. Their rationale is if God knows us in the womb, then we must be a person. Of course, they often overlook these verses that illustrate God's willingness to kill both the born and unborn. Of course, SAB is comparing apples and oranges, casualties of war in an age when descendants of those you killed in war would come back on you to defend their honor, and the unborn with no such issue today.
• 1:14-15 God plans to send enemy nations against his "chosen people." If this is his way of blessing them, I hope he never decides to bless America -- or any other country, for that matter. If this is the way such people behave, can SAB show they did not earn their punishment and get beyond argument by outrage.
• 1:16 The worshipping of other gods is called wickedness. And for SAB it must not be, since no gods exist.
• 2:20 Jeremiah insults people by calling them "harlots", saying that they have sex on every hill and under every tree. And they do, with their idolatries. The problem, other than SAB's personal distastes, is what?
• 2:24 God compares Jerusalem's sinful ways to a promiscuous woman, or a wild donkey in heat. It's a good comparison. Very effective. What's SAB's problem? Maybe he's a provincialist when it comes to ancient values.
• 2:30 God tries, but in vain, to "correct" his people by killing their children. The word actually means smitten, which can include killing but does not need to, but in the meantime, short-sighted SAB seems to prefer that people be allowed to die eternally rather than suffer briefly in this life.
• 2:32 "Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?" This is meant to be a rhetorical question with an obvious answer: Of course not; women think only about their clothes. It doesn't say "only"; it says they do, period -- and in this day, that was quite true, as to be well clothed and ornamented was a token of honor.
• 3:1 A divorced woman is "polluted" when she remarries. The man, of course, remains perfectly clean through it all, even though he was the one who "put her away" in the first place. You won't find the latter anywhere about men, sorry. But because men were responsible for their marriage choices and women weren't, there's not much sense in telling women this about men.
• 3:2 "In the ways thou hast sat for them ..." A woman can't even sit anymore without being condemned by God. It says that? Um, no it doesn't. It's not just a reference to plain old sitting down.
• 3:3 Jeremiah loves to insult people. His favorite insult is to call someone a whore. In this verse he accuses Jedah [sic] of having a "whore's forehead." SAB loves to be a provincialist when it comes to ancient language, prude that he is.
• 3:6 More talk of harlots who have sex under every tree. Ditto.
• 3:8 God gives Judah "a bill of divorce." Who of course did not earn it, having fornicated with false gods after repeated chances to stop.
• 3:9 Judah commits adultery with "stocks and stones." Rock and wood -- what idols were made out of.
• 3:12 Is God merciful? And How long does his anger last?. See here.
• 3:13 Jeremiah just can't quit talking about sex under the trees. Maybe that's because...the people just can't quit their idolatry? Might as well say, "The Surgeon General just can't quit talking about smoking" and accept that as a valid criticism.
• 3:17 Jeremiah prophesies that all nations of the earth will embrace Judaism. This has not happened. It isn't Judaism, but the Lord, and it has happened with the Christian faith.
• 3:20 "As a wife treacherously departeth from her husband ..." If a woman leaves her husband, she is "treacherous," but a man is blameless when he "puts her away" for no reason. No reason? And where was that done?
• 4:2 This verse tells us to swear, but swearing is forbidden in Mt.5:34-37 and Jas.5:12. For the ten billionth time since we started addressing SAB, see here.
• 4:4 Circumcise the foreskin of your heart or God will burn you to death. Mere outrage.
• 4:6-7 God will bring evil to destroy cities and wipe out all of the inhabitants. Ditto but see also here.
• 4:10 God has "greatly deceived this people." See here.
• 4:25-28 What was once fruitful is now barren. Birds have fled, people are gone, towns are in ruins. All "by his (God's) fierce anger." Mere argument by outrage.
• 5:3 God sends plagues and violence to correct his people, but they still won't repent. Ditto.
• 5:4 Those who don't follow or know God are "poor" and "foolish." And SAB has shown that they were actually rich and intelligent.
• 5:6 God will send lions and leopards to tear people into little bitty pieces. Just as they were warned would happen in Deuteronomy -- if they misbehaved and persisted in it. Mere outrage.
• 5:8 "As fed horses in the morning: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife." Yep. What, is SAB a provinicialist against metaphors?
• 5:12-13 God will kill those who believe and preach the wrong doctrines. Outrage and no rational argument again.
• 5:15-17 God again talks of bringing a foreign nation to destroy his chosen ones and their lands. Ditto.
• 5:22 God gets off on our fear of him. Even though, elsewhere, we're told that we don't have to fear God. See here.
• 5:31 "The prophets prophesy falsely." Unfortunately, we're not told how to differentiate between the true and false prophets. If SAB doesn't know, we won't tell him. Hint: Read Deuteronomy's instructions.
• 6:10 "Behold, their ear is uncircumcised." Behold, SAB must have gotten a cheap jolly out of an ancient metaphor.
• 6:11-12 "I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in." He's anxious to "pour it out" on children, young men, husbands, wives, and old people. Mere outrage.
• 6:12 God threatens to punish the men by taking away all of their property, including their wives, and giving them to others. Ditto.
• 6:19 God "will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts" because they refuse to do whatever the hell he asks them to do. Oh! Of course it's all just so dreadfully unfair that God won't let them worship the 200 foot hoohoo deity and go into eternal damnation and lead others the same way.
• 6:20 This verse says that God doesn't like burnt offerings. Then why did he waste the first nine chapters of Leviticus on instructions for animal sacrifices? Related to issue here.
• 6:21 God plans to kill pretty much everyone: Fathers and sons, family, friends, and neighbors. God plans to kill them all after laying a stumbling block before them, just to make sure. And there were all perfectly innocent and playing checkers when God did this. Mere outrage.
• 6:22-23 God will send soldiers from the north that will kill everyone and have no mercy. Ditto.
• 7:16 God says that there are some people that you just shouldn't bother praying for. And if you do he won't listen anyway. Um, yeah -- people whose sin is so great that it's too late. SAB writes as though God said not to pray for sick old ladies.
• 7:18 God is angered by children who gather wood, fathers who make fires, and women that make bread for the "queen of heaven" (Mary?) and other gods. SAB alone would suggest Mary in 600-500 BC. These are all worship to pagan gods, not normal everyday duties.
• 7:20 God will pour out his anger on both man and beast. Not even the trees will be spared from his wrath. And the ground itself will burn forever. Metaphorical language anyway, but still nothing but outrage.
• 7:22 Did God command the Israelites to make him burnt offerings? See 6:20.
• 7:33 God will feed the people to the birds and the beasts, "and none shall fray them away." Outrage.
• 8:2 God will cover the earth with dead bodies that will not be buried. "They shall be for dung upon the face of the earth." Outrage.
• 8:3 People will choose to kill themselves, rather than be killed by their vicious God. Still outrage.
• 8:10 To punish men, God will "give their wives unto others." Still not past outrage and into actual argument proving injustice at work.
• 8:17 God says: "I will send serpents, cockatrices among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you." (A cockatrice is "a legendary serpent with a deadly glance said to be hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg on a dunghill." -- Webster's Dictionary) A viper is what all but the cockatrice-believing KJVers put here.
• 9:4-6 Don't trust anyone. Not even your neighbors, family, or friends. Those who believe differently than you are all liars and evil doers. The same applies if you live next door to Nazis. Be nice to them and remember that their point of view deserves respect too. So what if they're different?
• 9:11 God will make Jerusalem "a den of dragons." Jackals everywhere but the KJV.
• 9:15-16 God will give the people bad food and water, and then kill them with a sword. Outrage.
• 9:21-22 God will kill children and young men, and the dead bodies "shall fall as dung .... and none shall gather them." Ditto.
• 9:25 "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised." I guess that'd include just about everyone -- well, all the men anyway. Ditto.
• 10:2 "Learn not the way of the heathen" and don't look for signs from heaven. See above.
• 10:3-4 JW issue, we pass.
• 10:10 When God gets angry, the earth trembles. When SAB reads metaphors, he turns pedantic.
• 10:11 God says that these other gods will perish. Oh, wouldn't want to get rid of those false gods, now would we?
• 10:22 Judah will become a desolate den of dragons. See above.
• 10:23 According to Jeremiah, humans lack free will. "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Do you see "lack free will"? I don't.
• 10:25 Jeremiah prays for the destruction of the people that don't know God or call on his name. Outrage still.
• 11:3 Those who don't follow the Old Testament laws are cursed by God. Ditto.
• 11:11 God "will bring evil upon" people from which they will not be able to escape. And if they cry out to him for help, he will not help them. More ditto more. If we ever see an actual argument for injustice it'll be a miracle.
• 11:14 God forbids others from praying for his victims. Such prayers would go unanswered anyway, he says, because he "will not hear them in their time of trouble." See above.
• 11:17 "For the Lord of hosts ... hath pronounced evil against thee ..." See here.
• 11:22 God will punish them by killing their young men in war and starving their children to death. Outrage. All of this was warned in Deuteronomy as a last resort for what is eternal salvation.
• 12:1 Jeremiah asks God why wicked people are so happy and prosperous. But Ps.34:21 says that wicked people are desolate. See here.
• 12:3 Jeremiah asks God to drag away his enemies like "sheep for the slaughter." Outrage.
• 12:12 God's sword will "devour" everyone until "no flesh shall have peace." Ditto.
• 12:16 God rewards those who swear by his name. Probably this issue again.
• 12:17 If any nation does not listen to God, he "will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation." Outrage.
• 13:1-7 God gives Jeremiah some divine instructions about a girdle. He tells him not to wash it, but to hide it in a rock. Jeremiah does as he's told. But, alas, when he goes to retrieve it, it was ruined. Darn! Darn! SAB is a provincialist when it comes to performance art.
• 13:10 Apparently, the point of the girdle story (13:1-7) was to say that worshipping other gods "is good for nothing." Apparently SAB is not tolerant of other cultures' means of communication.
• 13:13-14 God plans to make everyone in the kingdom drunk and then "dash the fathers and the sons together." The merciful God of Peace vows to "not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them." What a guy. So would say the guilty of the judge who sentenced them. SAB sounds like an inmate legal brief.
• 13:22 God compares the destruction of Jerusalem to the rape of a woman who deserves to be raped because she has sinned. He does? I don't see the word "rape" anywhere, or the concept.
• 13:26-27 God plans to expose Jerusalem's private parts to the world by lifting her skirt over her head, so to speak. He's seen her commit whoredoms and abominations and whatnot on the hills, and he's getting darned sick of it! Poor SAB the prude. See here.
• 14:6 The wild asses "snuffed up the wind like dragons." Jackals, as above.
• 14:12 God will ignore the peoples' prayers and their animal and other kinds of sacrifices, promising to kill them all instead by war, starvation, and disease. See above.
• 14:14 God complains that "the prophets prophesy lies" in his name. Does this mean that Isaiah, Daniel, and Jeremiah were all prophesying lies? Neither was even alive at the time, and if Jerry is in the mix, is he lying when he reports that he is lying?
• 14:15-16 God will destroy by famine and sword those who a misled by the prophets, as well as the prophets themselves. Outrage.
• 15:2-4 God plans to do three things to his people: 1) kill them with swords, 2) tear their flesh with dogs, and 3) have the birds, and the beasts eat their bodies. Why will he do these terrible things? Because of something some former king did. Oh of course. The people were just playing tiddlywinks otherwise.
• 15:6 God is weary of repenting. But in other places the Bible says that God never repents and never gets weary. See here and here.
• 15:7-9 God again threatens Jerusalem with mass destruction. Here are some of the highlights: He will kill children, make more widows than there are grains of sand, terrorize cities, and then kill the survivors. Outrage.
• 15:14 God will have you enslaved and, if you make him mad enough, he will burn you to death. Outrage.
• 16:3-7 God has ordained that everyone (mothers and daughters, fathers and sons) "shall die of grievous deaths," and that they shall neither "be lamented" nor even buried, but "they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth." For he has removed peace, "lovingkindness," and mercy from the people. Outrage.
• 16:10-11 After God has killed everyone, those who remain will say, "Wherefore hath the Lord pronounce this great evil against us?" God answers saying, "Because your fathers have forsaken me." So the children will be punished with agonizing deaths for something that their parents did, in this case, worshipping other gods. Outrage.
• 16:17 Can God see everything? See here.
• 17:4 God will enslave the people of Judah because they worshipped the wrong gods. And his anger will last forever. Outrage.
• 17:5 God tells us not to trust anyone, not even our family or friends, by saying: "Cursed be the man that trusteth in man." Hardly universal advice, but given in a time when it was true.
• 17:10 Will God reward every person according to his works? See here.
• 17:13 JW issue, we pass.
• 17:18 Jeremiah asks God to bring evil upon his enemies and to "destroy them with double destruction." Outrage.
• 17:27 If you don't honor the Sabbath, God will burn you to death unquenchable fire. Outrage.
• 18:8-10 Does God ever repent? See above.
• 18:11 God admits that he does evil things to people. See above.
• 18:21 Jeremiah asks God to kill the young men in war and the children with starvation. Outrage.
• 19:3, 15 God says he will do so much evil to the people that whoever hears of it will have their ears tingle. Outrage plus see here.
• 19:7-9 God will make parents eat their own children, and friends each other. Then he'll feed whoever's left over to the birds. This will make everyone that passes by hiss with astonishment. Outrage. See also here.
• 19:11-13 God will break those who worship other gods as though they were made of clay, killing so many that there will not be enough room to bury them all. Outrage.
• 20:4 After Jeremiah is roughed up and arrested on the orders of Pashur the priest, he threatens Pashur and his friends, family and all of Judah with captivity and slaughter. Because of the actions of one man. Sorry -- no "because" statement is in the text as SAB accuses.
• 20:7 Can God deceive others? See here.
• 21:5-6 God will fight and kill everyone in fury, both man and beast, with a strong arm and a great pestilence. Outrage.
• 21:7 God will deliver Zedekiah and those that survive the famine, disease, and war into Nebuchadrezzar's hand, and "he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy." Outrage.
• 21:9-13 God tells the Judeans to either surrender to the Babylonians and become their slaves or die. "Behold, I am against thee." No kidding. Outrage.
• 22:3 Defend the helpless and oppressed; don't harm strangers, widows, orphans, or other innocent people. He likes it.
• 22:5 God swears to himself. What about it?
• 22:18-19 Where did Jehoiakim die? See here.
• 22:25-30 God will have Jeconiah's enemies kill him and his mother and then ensure that he die without leaving any sons? Which seems a bit strange since Jeconiah is listed as an ancestor of Jesus in Mt.1:12. See here.
• 23:11 God finds some wicked prophets and priests. Like Jeremiah, maybe? Pointless smart remark by SAB who has only outrage, not rational argument.
• 23:12 God promises to bring more evil upon his chosen people. See above.
• 23:24 Does God see and know everything? See above.
• 24:10 God once again promises to kill everyone by war, starvation, and disease. Outrage.
• 25:1 When did Nebuchadnezzar come to Jerusalem? See here.
• 25:12 God says he is going to punish Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians for what they have done to his people -- even though God Himself is the one who made the Babylonians attack and enslave Judah! As part of the punishment God will take the land of the Babylonians and "make it perpetual desolations." A false prophecy, since present-day Iraq is quite occupied. See here on desolations (hyperbole), otherwise outrage, as Babylon was hardly innocent beforehand.
• 25:26-29 God will force "all the kingdoms of the world" to drink "and be drunken". Then he'll kill "all the inhabitants of the earth" with a sword. Outrage.
• 25:30 God is really getting into all of this killing. He roars, he mightily roars, and he shouts. Outrage.
• 25:31-33 God kills so many people that the entire earth will be covered with their dead bodies. No one is to mourn them or even bury them; "they shall be dung upon the ground." Outrage.
• 25:37-38 God will destroy "the peaceable habitations" and make the land desolate "because of his fierce anger." Outrage.
• 26:3, 13, 19 Does God ever repent? See here.
• 27:8 Anyone who disobeys King Nebuchadnezzar will be punished "with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand." Outrage.
• 28:16-17 God kills Hananiah for prophesying falsely. Outrage.
• 29:17-18 God will send his usual blessings upon his people: "the sword, the famine, and the pestilence." He "will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil." Outrage.
• 29:19 God will kill those who refuse listen to his prophets. Outrage.
• 29:21-22 God will deliver Ahab and Zedekiah into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar "and he shall slay them before your eyes" and Ahab will be "roasted in the fire." Outrage.
• 29:32 God will punish the children of Shemaiah for their father's false prophecy. Not his children, but his seed, who had yet to be actualized as children.
• 30:23 "Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord ..." More fury, pain, and fierce anger from the peaceful God of love. Outrage. And a screwy definition of love as sentimentality without justice.
• 31:15 Matthew (2:17-18) quotes this verse, claiming that it was a prophecy of King Herod's alleged slaughter of the children in and around Bethlehem after the birth of Jesus. But this passage refers to the Babylonian captivity, as is clear by reading the next two verses (16 and 17), and, thus, has nothing to do with Herod's massacre. See principles here.
• 31:22 "The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth," contrary to Ec.1:9 which says "there is nothing new under the sun." See here.
• 31:29-30 "In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity." But in other places the bible says that children are to be punished for the sins of their parents. See here.
• 31:32 Misquoted in Heb.8:9. See principles, 31:15.
• 31:37 This verse implies that the earth is on foundations and does not move. But of course we know that the earth is in constant motion as it rotates about the sun. See here.
• 32:17, 27 According to these verses God can do anything, and nothing is too hard for him. But in other places the Bible says that there are some things that God can't do. See here and here (Mark 6:5). This verse does not allow for God to do logically impossible things like lie (compromise His own nature).
• 32:18 In the middle of praising God, Jeremiah states that God "recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them..." Not something I consider praiseworthy. Outrage.
• 32:42 God brings evil upon people. See above.
• 33:5 God litters the ground "with the dead bodies of men" that he has killed in his anger and fury. Outrage.
• 33:17 "David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel." But the Davidic line of Kings ended with Zedekiah; there were none during the Babylonian captivity, and there are none today. See Jeconiah link above.
• 34:5 God lies to Zedekiah again by telling him that he will die in peace and be buried with his fathers. But later (2 Kg.25:7 and Jer.39:6-9, Jer.52:10-11) he dies a violent death in a foreign land. See here.
• 34:17-20 God threatens again to send his people the sword, pestilence, and famine, saying he'll feed their dead bodies to the fowls and beasts of the earth. Outrage.
• 35:17 God is indeed the author of evil. Here he brags about bringing "all the evil" he can think of upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem. See above.
• 36:3 More evil plans from a supposedly good god. Outrage.
• 36:30 This verse says that Jehoiakim has no successors, but 2 Kg.24:6 says that he was succeeded by his son Jehoiachin. See here.
• 36:31 More of the good God's evil plans. See above.
• 39:6-9 The beginning of the end for Zedekiah. Despite God's earlier assurances (34:5) that he would die peacefully at home, here Zedekiah watches as his children are killed and then has his eyes put out and he is shackled and taken to Babylon. Also, the city is burned and those remaining are enslaved. See above.
• 40:2 God spreads evil wherever he goes. See above.
• 42:10 God repents (It's about time!), contrary to several Bible verses. See above.
• 42:15-18, 22 All those who move to Egypt will die by the sword, famine, or pestilence. None "shall escape from the evil" that comes directly from God. But many, including Jews, have moved to Egypt and most seem to have escaped from God's promised evil. See above on definition of evil -- all of the Jews experienced calamity to some degree.
• 44:2 God boasts some more about "all the evil that [he] has brought." See above.
• 44:6 When God pours forth his fury and his anger, entire cities are destroyed. Outrage.
• 44:11-13 God's not finished with Judah. He will bring more evil upon them. Even those Jews that flee to Egypt will not be spared. God will hunt them down and kill them all with war, famine, and disease. See above, plus outrage.
• 44:27-28 "I will watch over them for evil, and not for good." So begins another pronouncement of death and destruction on his chosen people. See above, plus outrage.
• 45:5 God says he will bring evil upon all flesh. See above, plus outrage.
• 46:10 The day of the Lord will be "a day of vengeance." On that day God's sword will become drunk with blood. Outrage.
• 47:2-4 God plans to drown the Philistines in a flood, and "all the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl." Outrage.
• 48:8 God plans to kill just about everybody. "No city shall escape." Outrage.
• 48:10 "Cursed by he that keepeth back his sword from blood." Outrage.
• 48:26 Jeremiah asks God to make Moab drunk, and predicts that Moab will "wallow in his vomit." See here.
• 48:42-47 God's not through with Moab. The people that flee fall into "the pit," fire burns their heads, and sons and daughters are taken captive. Outrage and war talk of the ancient world, like Ramsses II saying he made people "ashes". Literally burning war captives would have been a ridiculous waste of resources.
• 49:2 God will cause the daughters of Rabbah to be burned with fire. See above.
• 49:13 God swears to himself. Still want to know, so what?
• 49:17 God will send such marvelous plagues on Edom that everyone will hiss in astonishment. Outrage.
• 49:33 Jeremiah predicts that humans will never again live in Hazor, but will be replaced by dragons. But people still live there and dragons have never been seen. Jackals, yet again. And hyperbolic war talk like Ramesses'.
• 49:37 God plans to "bring evil upon" the people of Elam. He says he'll kill them all with a sword. See above.
• 50:21 God says to do the usual thing to the inhabitants of "the land of Merathaim": kill them all. Outrage.
• 50:27-30 God commands that all Babylonian bullocks be slaughtered, that archers shoot all Babylonians, and that all their men be killed in war. Outrage.
• 50:32 God, the pyromaniac, will personally set the fires that will burn to death the inhabitants of entire cities. Outrage.
• 50:37 God plans to kill all the Babylonian horses, and to make the Babylonian men "become like women." (A fate worse than death to a misogynous god.) Outrage.
• 50:39 God prophesies that Babylon will never again be inhabited. But it has been inhabited constantly since the prophecy was supposedly made, and is inhabited still today. See above on hyperbolic war talk.
• 51:14 God swears to himself. Still don't see the problem.
• 51:21-23 God will "break in pieces" nations and kingdoms, horse and rider, man and woman, old and young, young man and maid, the shepherd and his flock, husbandman and his yoke of oxen, captain and kings. It seems that God intends to break us all into pieces. Outrage.
• 51:26, 29, 37, 43, 62, 64 God says that Babylon will be desolate and uninhabited forever. He says that only dragons will live there. But Babylon has been dragon-free and continuously inhabited since then. See above.
• 51:39-40 God will get the Babylonians drunk and then kill them all, leading them "like lambs to the slaughter." Outrage.
• 52:10-11 God promised Zedekiah (Jer.34:5) that he would die peacefully and be buried with his fathers. But here we see that he died a miserable death in foreign land. See above.
• 52:12-13 Did the temple burn on the seventh (2 Kg.25:8-9) or the tenth day? See here.
• 52:22 Was the chapiter five or three cubits? Ditto, next entry.
• 52:25 How many men stood in the king's presence? Ditto.
• 52:31On what day of the month was Jehoiachin released from prison? Ditto.

Lamentations

• 1:8-10 Jerusalem is compared to a naked woman who sighs and turns backward. "Her filthiness is in her skirts." See here.
• 1:10 The adversary puts his hand upon "all her pleasant things." Ditto.
• 1:15-16 God tramples "as in a winepress" mighty men, young men, and virgins. Outrage.
• 1:17 "Jerusalem is as a menstrous woman." To God this is an insult. See above.
• 1:21-22 How should we treat our enemies? See here.
• 2:2-12 With one small phrase, the writer sums up how the Biblical God often acts: "The LORD was as an enemy." He goes on about how God has punished everyone without pity, including allowing Israel's enemies to defeat them, destroying palaces, homes, temples and more, causing mourning and exile. Then, a tear-jerking passage on the starvation of children. How often, with years of warning and plenty of chances to repent? See here for rational response to the jerked tears.
• 2:9 Apparently, the destruction wrought by God was so bad, "the law is no more." But what about those other verses that say the law is "forever" and so on? And, the prophets are no longer hearing from God? Is that a permanent thing or what? It's called "hyperbole".
• 2:14 Prophets have vain and foolish visions. SAB agrees, so what's the problem?
• 2:15-19 "The LORD hath done that which he had devised" and he did it without pity. That explains the murder, slavery, oppression, grief, destruction Jerusalem has suffered. Then, in verse 19, the writer urges his followers to beg God for the sake of their children. So much for being the "chosen people." See link. 2:2-12, for cure of outrage.
• 2:20-22 God gets angry and mercilessly torments and kills everyone, young and old. He even causes women to eat their children. Outrage.
• 3:8 Does God listen to and answer prayers? See here and recall that Proverbs are not absolutes.
• 3:10-11 God is like a bear or a lion who secretly pursues you and then tears you apart. Outrage.
• 3:33 This verse says that God does not "afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men." Yet he often instructs his followers to mercilessly slaughter innocent people -- and even more often, he does so himself. "Innocent"? SAB had best name names and do contextial study first.
• 3:38 "Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not good and evil?" Mostly evil, I'd say -- at least if you believe the Bible. See above.
• 3:43-48 God is covered with anger, slaying people without pity. Outrage.
• 3:44 Does God listen to and answer prayers? See above.
• 3:64-66 How should we treat our enemies? See above.
• 4:10-11 Once more the good God "accomplishes his fury" by making women eat their children. Praise God. "Making"? Sorry, no cause and effect is stated at all.
• 4:21 When God gets angry at you he calls you a drunken whore. See above on ancient mores, 1:8-10.