Jeremiah

Serving as God's spokesman in the turbulent years leading to Jerusalem's fall, Jeremiah endured rejection and suffering as he urged the people of Judah to turn from their idolatry. His tears over their impending judgment through exile have marked him as the weeping prophet, whose words in the book that bears his name include the promise of a new covenant of grace. He also penned Lamentations, pouring out his grief over the city's destruction while affirming the steadfast love of the Lord that never ceases.

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Books written: Jeremiah, Lamentations

Read Through Jeremiah's Writings

57 chapters total

Jeremiah

1 The Call of Jeremiah 2 Israel Forsakes God 3 A Call to Repentance 4 Disaster from the North 5 Not One Is Upright 6 Jerusalem Under Siege 7 The Temple Sermon 8 Sin and Punishment 9 Jeremiah Weeps for His People 10 The Lord and Idols 11 The Broken Covenant 12 Jeremiah's Complaint 13 The Linen Belt 14 Drought, Famine, and Sword 15 God's Judgment Confirmed 16 Jeremiah's Life as a Sign 17 Judah's Sin and Punishment 18 The Potter and the Clay 19 The Broken Jar 20 Jeremiah's Persecution 21 God Rejects Zedekiah's Request 22 Judgment on Wicked Kings 23 The Righteous Branch 24 Two Baskets of Figs 25 Seventy Years of Captivity 26 Jeremiah Threatened with Death 27 Submit to Babylon 28 The False Prophet Hananiah 29 A Letter to the Exiles 30 Restoration Promised 31 The New Covenant 32 Jeremiah Buys a Field 33 Promise of Restoration 34 Warning to Zedekiah 35 The Rechabites' Faithfulness 36 Jehoiakim Burns the Scroll 37 Jeremiah Imprisoned 38 Jeremiah in the Cistern 39 The Fall of Jerusalem 40 Jeremiah Freed 41 The Murder of Gedaliah 42 Flight to Egypt Forbidden 43 Jeremiah Taken to Egypt 44 Disaster for Jews in Egypt 45 A Message to Baruch 46 Oracle Against Egypt 47 Oracle Against the Philistines 48 Oracle Against Moab 49 Oracles Against the Nations 50 Oracle Against Babylon 51 The Fall of Babylon 52 The Fall of Jerusalem Retold

Lamentations

1 The Desolation of Jerusalem 2 God's Anger Against Zion 3 Hope in God's Faithfulness 4 The Siege of Jerusalem 5 A Prayer for Restoration

Key Passages

Plans to Prosper You

Jeremiah 29:11-13

F¹¹or I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

¹² Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. ¹³ And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

The New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:31-34

B³¹ehold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

³² Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: ³³ But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Lamentations 3:22-26

I²²t is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

²³ They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. ²⁴ The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. ²⁵ The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. ²⁶ It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.