Jeremiah

The call of Jeremiah: appointed prophet to nations before birth; God touches his mouth, setting him to uproot and plant; visions of almond branch (God watching) and boiling pot forecasting northern invasion against Judah’s idolatry.

Israel’s early devotion forgotten; people forsook the spring of living water for broken cisterns; exchanged their Glory for idols, stained by guilt despite rituals.

Despite Israel’s spiritual adultery and Judah’s pretense, God invites return with confession; promises shepherds after His heart and future united worship in Jerusalem—The Throne of the LORD.

Call to sincere return and heart-circumcision; disaster from the north likened to a lion; cosmic vision of de-creation as land becomes desolate.

No honest person found in Jerusalem; people indulge adultery and deception; prophets lie, priests rule falsely; a foreign nation is appointed to devour.

Siege of Jerusalem announced; people refuse the ancient paths; prophets and priests cry “Peace” while greedy; doom approaches from the north.

Temple sermon: ritual cannot mask injustice; Shiloh serves as warning; Judah’s idolatry in Ben-Hinnom will turn the valley into slaughter ground.

Bones of leaders exposed; people stubbornly cling to deceit; prophet laments, asking if there is no balm in Gilead for the nation’s wound.

Jeremiah wishes for tears to weep continually; society rife with lies; call to mourn; true boast is knowing the LORD who exercises steadfast love, justice, righteousness.

Denounce worthless handmade idols; the LORD alone is living Creator; plea for just correction and for wrath on ignorant nations.

Covenant curse proclaimed for Judah’s rebellion; conspiracy revealed; men of Anathoth plot Jeremiah’s death but God will judge them.

Jeremiah questions prospering wicked; God replies with harder trials ahead; He abandons His heritage to ravagers yet promises future compassion for repentant nations.

Linen belt sign—Judah’s pride ruined; wineskin parable of coming drunken destruction; Ethiop can’t change skin—people fixed in evil destined for exile.

Drought lament; people plead yet God rejects prayers; prophets of peace are lying; sword, famine, plague decreed.

Even Moses or Samuel couldn’t avert judgment; four deadly forms appointed; Jeremiah laments his pain; God promises to fortify him if he returns.

Jeremiah forbidden to marry—symbol of coming deaths; Judah’s sins explained; future fishermen/hunters will capture them, yet ultimate restoration promised.

Sin engraved on heart; curse on those trusting man, blessing on those trusting LORD; deceitful heart; God searches minds; call to honor Sabbath.

Potter’s house lesson: God can reshape nations; Judah refuses ancient paths; plot against Jeremiah answered by his imprecation.

Broken jar at Topheth: Judah will be smashed for shedding innocent blood; Valley of Ben-Hinnom to become Valley of Slaughter.

Pashhur beats Jeremiah; renamed ‘Terror on Every Side’; Jeremiah’s internal struggle—word is fire in his bones despite persecution.

Zedekiah seeks oracle; God offers life through surrender to Babylon, death by resistance; royal house urged to do justice.

Messages to kings: Do justice or palace will ruin; judgments on Shallum, Jehoiakim (burial of donkey), and Coniah (childless exile).

Woe to shepherds scattering flock; promise of righteous Branch—‘The LORD Our Righteousness’; condemnation of lying prophets and dreamers.

Vision of good and bad figs: exiles in Babylon will be restored; remaining leaders likened to worthless figs destined for calamity.

After 23 years of warnings Judah ignored; Babylon appointed to desolate nations for 70 years, then itself punished; cup of wrath for all nations.

Temple sermon incident: Jeremiah threatened with death but acquitted; precedent of Micah cited; prophet Uriah executed.

Yoke symbol: nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar; false prophets urging rebellion condemned; surrender means life.

Hananiah breaks yoke, prophesies two-year restoration; Jeremiah predicts iron yoke and Hananiah’s death that year.

Letter to exiles: settle, seek Babylon’s welfare; ignore false prophets; after 70 years God will bring hopeful future.

Book of Consolation begins: time of Jacob’s trouble yet salvation; restoration of city, covenant relationship reaffirmed.

Everlasting love; Rachel weeping; promise of new covenant with law on hearts; Israel and Judah restored.

Jerusalem under siege; Jeremiah buys Anathoth field as sign of future property transactions; nothing too hard for the LORD who will restore.

Promise of healing, joy, and secure Davidic ‘Branch’; perpetual covenant with David’s line and Levitical priests.

Zedekiah’s fate foretold—captivity but peaceful death; covenant to free slaves violated, bringing sword, plague, famine.

Recabites’ obedience to ancestor contrasts Judah’s disobedience; Recabites promised lasting lineage of service.

Baruch writes scroll; Jehoiakim burns it; Jeremiah dictates another with added judgments.

During temporary Babylonian withdrawal Jeremiah imprisoned as deserter; warns Zedekiah Babylon will return.

Jeremiah lowered into cistern, rescued by Ebed-Melech; advises Zedekiah to surrender to live.

Fall of Jerusalem; Zedekiah blinded and exiled; Jeremiah protected; Ebed-Melech promised safety.

Jeremiah free; Gedaliah appointed governor; remnant gathers; warning about assassination plot ignored.

Ishmael assassinates Gedaliah, slaughters many, takes captives; Johanan rescues survivors; plan to flee Egypt.

Remnant asks counsel, told to stay in Judah; if go to Egypt they'll perish; they are warned this inquiry will be disobeyed.

Remnant accuses Jeremiah, drags him to Egypt; Jeremiah predicts Nebuchadnezzar’s conquest of Egypt.

Jeremiah condemns idolatrous Jews in Egypt; they refuse, insisting on burning incense to Queen of Heaven; doom pronounced.

Word to Baruch: amidst coming upheaval seek no great things; your life will be spared wherever you go.

Judgments on Egypt—defeat at Carchemish, future invasion; but Jacob will be saved and disciplined in justice.

Oracle against Philistines: rising northern waters will overwhelm Gaza and Ashkelon.

Extensive woe on Moab for pride; its cities ruined; yet in latter days Moab will be restored.

Judgments on Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Hazor, and Elam; each nation warned of disaster.

Prophecy of Babylon’s fall; Israel and Judah will seek the LORD; northern nation will conquer Babylon.

Further pronouncements against Babylon—cup of wrath, winnowed and burned; scroll sunk in Euphrates as sign of sinking.

Historical appendix: siege, fall, temple plunder, deportations, release of Jehoiachin by Evil-Merodach.